Unique

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 56K(measured from records)
  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 147K
  • GYGuyana1 in 44K

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.

United States (measured from records)

5,953 people, 2020

Sources
205 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Ûnïqûë in JM Jamaica.

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Unique 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 Unique is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,9531 in 56K5.3KUnique205
NG Nigeria≈2,700 est.≈1 in 79K—Unique28
ID Indonesia≈760 est.≈1 in 352Klisted—1
UG Uganda≈250 est.≈1 in 171K—Unique3
ZA South Africa≈150 est.≈1 in 389K—Unique12
HK Hong Kong≈49 est.≈1 in 147K—Unique3
JM Jamaica≈44 est.≈1 in 64K—Ûnïqûë4
GY Guyana171 in 44K17—2

5,953 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the id-github-names register. 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)

Unique is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, India

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Ùñìqûè, Úñíqúé, Uníqué, Ùñìqúé, Ùñíqúë

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Uníque, Űńîqüě, Ùñíqüè

  • French name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada, France, Morocco

    Also written Ùnique, Uñiqüé, Ùniqùè, Unîque, Úníqúe

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Üñïqûé, Ünique

53 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)

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)

Attested in 30 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Unique
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.3K#3,483
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020685#3,483
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2009292—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2001272—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2005268—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1996264—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1999259—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1997253—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2000248—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1998245—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2002243—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2006239—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Unique?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,953 people named Unique in 2020, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
In which country does Unique have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Unique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled unique.
Where is Unique most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Unique is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

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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, “Unique”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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