Nhũ

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nhũ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 673(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 100K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 26K

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.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈150,000 people, est.

Sources
170 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 673 (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nhu in VN Vietnam, US United States, AO Angola and Như in ID Indonesia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nhũ 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 Nhũ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#51≈150,000 est.≈1 in 673listedNhu170
US United States—3,3391 in 100K3KNhu129
AO Angola—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 26K—Nhu3
ID Indonesia—≈890 est.≈1 in 301K—Như1
AU Australia—≈460 est.≈1 in 55K3—2
SE Sweden—1841 in 55K184—6
FI Finland—1001 in 56K259—5

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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)

Nhũ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name22 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Nhu, Như, Nhữ, Nhự, Ñhü

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nhũ is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tpn, field, plain, meadow

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nhũ 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

Is Nhũ a male or female name?
Nhũ is a female 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 Nhũ have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 147 thousand people named Nhũ in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nhu.
How common is the name Nhũ?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,339 people named Nhũ in 2020, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
How common is Nhũ compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Nhũ is the 51st most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.

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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, “Nhũ” — the 51st most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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