Ngữ

given name · Latin script

Meaning: tempo

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

Ngữ is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • NONorway1 in 161K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 364K
  • USUnited States1 in 401K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

829 people, 2010

Record sources
44 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

tempo

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ngữ 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 Ngữ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8291 in 401K1.1KNgu44
NO Norway341 in 161K34—1
SE Sweden281 in 364K28—2
ES Spain211 in 2.4M21—1
CH Switzerland121 in 700K12—2
DK Denmark111 in 534K11——

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Indonesian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Ngu, Ngủ, Ngư, Ngự, Ngü

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ngu, Ngư, Ngự, Ngũ, Ñĝű

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Ngư, Ngũ, Ngừ, Ñgự, Ngu

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ngu, Ngư, Ngũ, Ngû

  • Khmer surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Cambodia, United States

    Also written Ngu, Ńǵů, Ňǵú, Ňǵů, Ngư

8 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
  • Wang Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 219647
  • Wang Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 210789
  • Zhang Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 315917
  • Zhang Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 337108
  • Song Yunot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 329456
  • Zhu Yunot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 350595
  • Wei Yunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 435301
  • Li Yunot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 407395

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ngữ 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 Ngữ mean, and where does it come from?
tempo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ngữ a male or female name?
Ngữ 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 Ngữ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 829 people named Ngữ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ngu.
Where is Ngữ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ngữ 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 Ngữ?
In the United States, the national register counted 829 people named Ngữ in 2010, about 1 in 401 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Ngữ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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