Ngư
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ngư is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: fish.
- USUnited States1 in 401K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 161K
- SESweden1 in 364K
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
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
829 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ngu in US United States.
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)
fish
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ngư 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 | 829 | 1 in 401K | 1.1K | Ngu | 44 |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
829 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Li Yub. 704not in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 140387
- Yuan Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 209457
- Niu Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 272953
- Ling Yunot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 55896
- Min Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 296655
- Xue Yunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB = 153929
- Ling Yunot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 356560
- Wang Yunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 415628
- Mu Yunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 417728
- Zang Yunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 419942
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ngư mean, and where does it come from?
- fish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Ngư a male or female name?
- Ngư is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ngư have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 829 people named Ngư, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngu.
- Where is Ngư most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ngư is densest in Norway — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ngư?
- In the United States, the national register counted 829 people named Ngư in 2010, about 1 in 401 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ng%C6%B0The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ngư”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.