Ưu

given name · Latin script

Meaning: optimal, superior

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

Ưu is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

  • TNTunisia
  • INIndia
  • RURussia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
8 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Uu in US United States, IN India, CN China and 1 more and Ùù in TN Tunisia.

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)

optimal, superior

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ưu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ưu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India——Uu5
US United States—105Uu8
CN China——Uu3
TN Tunisia——Ùù1
RU Russia——Uu4
GB United Kingdom—8—2

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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)

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

  • Indonesian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Nigeria, Philippines

    Also written Uu, Üü, Űű, Üu, Üṻ

  • French given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, India

    Also written Uu, Ùù, Üu, Uù, Üü

  • Hindi given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, Thailand

    Languages: Hindi, English, Thai

    Also written Uu, Üü, Üu, Ueu, Üû

  • Khmer surname51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cambodia, India

    Also written Uu, Ůឹū, Úូú, Ū៉ū, Ũú

6 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

What does the name Ưu mean, and where does it come from?
optimal, superior Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ưu a male or female name?
Ưu 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 Ưu have the most bearers?
Ưu is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled uu.

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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, “Ưu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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