Qúę
surname · Latin script
Qúę is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed both from Hokkien 郭 (Keh) and Catalan Qué.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 58Kas Qu
- SGSingapore≈1 in 100Kfew recordsas Quee
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Qúę itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
2,593 named Qu, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Qu in US United States, CN China, SG Singapore and Que in MY Malaysia, ES Spain, ZA South Africa.
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)Borrowed both from Hokkien 郭 (Keh) and Catalan Qué.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Qúę is found
(measured from records)Qúę 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 | 2,593as Qu | 1 in 128K | 4.2K | Qu | 250 |
| CN China | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Qu | 68 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Que | 13 |
| ES Spain | 336as Qu | 1 in 149K | 336 | Que | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Que | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 115 | 1 in 1.8M | 115 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 96as Qu | 1 in 58K | 96 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 73as Qu | 1 in 140K | 73 | — | 10 |
| SG Singapore | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Qu | 29 |
2,593 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Qúę mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed both from Hokkien 郭 (Keh) and Catalan Qué. Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Qúę?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Qu, more than in any other country we hold. After it come China, South Africa, Spain and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Qúę most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Qúę is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 1.8 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Qúę?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 115 people named Qúę, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Qúę?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/q%C3%BA%C4%99The 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, “Qúę”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.