Néu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Néu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The name of this oncogene is abbreviated from a neuroglioblastoma cell line, from which it was originally isolated in rats.
- USUnited States1 in 80K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 91K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 97K
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)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
4,170 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
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 Neu in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain.
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)
The name of this oncogene is abbreviated from a neuroglioblastoma cell line, from which it was originally isolated in rats.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Néu 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,170 | 1 in 80K | 4.2K | Neu | 82 |
| AR Argentina | 502 | 1 in 91K | 502 | Neu | 38 |
| BE Belgium | 100 | 1 in 117K | 100 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 87 | 1 in 97K | 87 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | 64 | 1 in 781K | 65 | Neu | 21 |
| NO Norway | 26 | 1 in 210K | 26 | — | 1 |
4,170 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Néu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, delicate, slender, elegant, graceful, as a lady
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to pinch to pluck or nip off
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, ernie ‘graceful
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Néu mean, and where does it come from?
- The name of this oncogene is abbreviated from a neuroglioblastoma cell line, from which it was originally isolated in rats. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Néu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Néu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neu.
- Where is Néu most common?
- Néu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 80 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Néu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,170 people named Néu in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9uThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Néu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.