Amu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of atomic mass unit
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɑːmuː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Amu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 568K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 31M
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)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 568K (inferred from the name graph)
586 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Abbreviation of atomic mass unit.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amu 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 | 586 | 1 in 568K | 558 | Amu | 102 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | — | Amu | 13 |
| DE Germany | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 43M | 1 | Amu | 25 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Amu | 42 |
| GH Ghana | — | — | — | Amu | 24 |
586 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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Amu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xbr, root
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In scn, first-person singular present active indicative of amari
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-leo, first-person singular present indicative of amare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sij, 2nd person plural free pronoun; you (plural)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In asl, 2sg. genitive for alienable possession, your
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amu Megumib. 1995JPJapanese idol singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 558 | #18,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28 | #18,408 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #42,192 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #30,921 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2020 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Amu mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of atomic mass unit. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Amu?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑːmuː/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Amu a male or female name?
- Amu 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 Amu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 586 people named Amu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amu.
- Where is Amu most common?
- Amu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 568 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Amu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 586 people named Amu in 2020, about 1 in 568 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/amuThe 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, “Amu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.