Möü

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Möü is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Cantonese 冇 (mou5).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 19M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

188 people, 2020

Record sources
138 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mou in IN India, FR France, US United States and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Cantonese 冇 (mou5).

Cited for this meaning 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Möü counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Möü is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1881 in 1.8M944Mou50
PL Poland21 in 19M7——
FR France——8Mou138
IN India——13KMou16
DZ Algeria———Mou7
CM Cameroon———Mou3
SN Senegal———Mou6

188 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Möü is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mou, Moue, Moù, Môu, Mòu

  • Hindi given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, China, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mou, Moù, Möű, Mőū, Möů

  • Hungarian name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Mou, Môŭ, Môû, Môù, Mőű

  • Bangla given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Bangladesh

    Also written Mou, মৌ, Moú, Màu, Móu

  • Indonesian given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco

    Also written Mou, Môû, Moù, Mőû, Mőų

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Möü under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Möü mean, and where does it come from?
From Cantonese 冇 (mou5). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
Is Möü a male or female name?
Möü is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Möü have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 188 people named Möü, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mou.
Where is Möü most common?
Möü is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Möü?
In the United States, the national register counted 188 people named Möü in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Möü”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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