Qüě
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Qüě is a given name used for both men and women, 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.
- USUnited States1 in 128Kas Qu(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 5.8Mas Quee
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8M
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 Qüě itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Qüě 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 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Que | 13 |
| ES Spain | 336as Qu | 1 in 149K | 336 | Que | 17 |
| CN China | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Qu | 68 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | 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 | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | 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 Qüě 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.
- Is Qüě a male or female name?
- Qüě 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 Qüě have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Qu, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Qüě most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Qüě 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 Qüě?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 115 people named Qüě, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Qüě?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/q%C3%BC%C4%9BThe 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, “Qüě”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.