Gehu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A modern Chinese instrument that fuses the Western cello with a more traditional huqin-like design, with four strings tuned like a cello
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Gehu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 640Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4Mfew records
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.6Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 641K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A modern Chinese instrument that fuses the Western cello with a more traditional huqin-like design, with four strings tuned like a cello.
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)Gehu 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 641K | Gehu | 20 |
| PE Peru | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | Gehu | 14 |
| US United States | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15M | Gehu | 18 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | Gehu | 2 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | Gehu | 5 |
| HN Honduras | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | Gehu | 1 |
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.
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)Gehu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, taoge (“bean sprout”) and tahu (“tofu”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gehu mean, and where does it come from?
- A modern Chinese instrument that fuses the Western cello with a more traditional huqin-like design, with four strings tuned like a cello. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Gehu a male or female name?
- Gehu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gehu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 204 people named Gehu in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gehu.
- How common is the name Gehu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 200 people in Mexico have Gehu as their first given name, about 1 in 641 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gehuThe 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, “Gehu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.