Nöu
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nöu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘To weed with a hoe’; ‘a hoe’.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 98K
- USUnited States1 in 248K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
1,340 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nou in US United States, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and 1 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)
‘To weed with a hoe’; ‘a hoe’
Sources 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nöu 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 | — | 1,340 | 1 in 248K | 1K | Nou | 14 |
| DZ Algeria | #523 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Nou | 13 |
| TN Tunisia | #706 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Nou | 7 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 7 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 583K | — | Nou | 13 |
1,340 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nöu mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘To weed with a hoe’; ‘a hoe’ Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- In which country does Nöu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Nöu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nou.
- How common is the name Nöu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,340 people named Nöu in 2020, about 1 in 248 thousand residents.
- How common is Nöu compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Nöu is the 523rd most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%B6uThe 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, “Nöu” — the 523rd most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.