Zû

given name · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 486K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M

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)

249 people, 2020

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 486K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Zu in CL Chile, US United States, BR Brazil and 2 more.

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)

recorded in Korean

@ 北 魏 时 改 代 北 鲍 粗 氏 为 姐 氏 , 见 《姓氏 考 略 》(60 ,62) 。@@ 相 传 宋 岳飞 姑 夫 祝 公 为 避 岳 飞 之 祸 , 命 六 子 外 逃 隐 姓 ,其 四 子 祝 景 行 至 长 社 ( 今 河南 长 葛 东 北 ) ,改姓 组 (704) 。

Sources 4

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
  • Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zû 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 Zû is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2491 in 1.3M352Zu36
BR Brazil251 in 8.5M180Zu30
SE Sweden211 in 486K21——
NL Netherlands131 in 1.3M7—2
CL Chile≈3 est.≈1 in 7M1Zu18
PT Portugal≈2 est.≈1 in 5.4M—Zu9
CR Costa Rica21 in 2.5M2Zu10

249 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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Zû is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Malaysia

    Also written Zu, Zú, Żu, Zù, Żų

  • Burmese given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma)

    Also written Zu, Żü, Zü, Žù, Žŭ

  • English given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Malaysia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zu, Zü, Zue, Žu, Zú

3 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)

1400160018002000Wang Ru, b. 1532Yang Yu, b. 1840Feng Ru, b. 1882Li Rulong, b. 1936
  • Wang Rub. 1532not in their usual namepolitician
  • Yang Yub. 1840not in their usual nameChinese diplomat
  • Feng Rub. 1882CNnot in their usual nameChinese Aviation Pioneer
  • Li Rulongb. 1936CNnot in their usual nameChinese linguist
  • Li RuCNnot in their usual name2nd century Han dynasty bureaucrat
  • Chen Runot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 230273
  • Yan Runot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 289476
  • Han Runot in their usual namepolitician
  • Lu Runot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 33413
  • Ding Runot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 34288

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 Zû 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 Zû a male or female name?
Zû 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 Zû have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 249 people named Zû, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zu.
Where is Zû most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zû is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 486 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zû?
In the United States, the national register counted 249 people named Zû in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Zû”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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