Htoo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tuː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Htoo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 20th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowing from Burmese ထူး (htu:).
- VNVietnam≈1 in 160as Duy(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 954as Dale
- CACanada≈1 in 964as Dale
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Htoo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #342 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 160 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400,000 named Dale, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est., as Duy
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dale in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Duy in VN Vietnam.
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)
Borrowing from Burmese ထူး (htu:).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Htoo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Dale | 28 |
| VN Vietnam | #20 | ≈620,000 est. | ≈1 in 160 | 105 | Duy | 236 |
| US United States | #169 | 188,893as Dale | 1 in 1.8K | 173K | Dale | 575 |
| GB United Kingdom | #221 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1.3K | Dale | 269 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Htoo | 80 |
| CA Canada | #150 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 964 | 3 | Dale | 281 |
| SG Singapore | #88 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Dale | 46 |
| NZ New Zealand | #151 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 954 | 12 | Dale | 120 |
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 page provides an analysis of the performance of Vietnamese surname lists in identifying Vietnamese individuals for r; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); the mm-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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Felice Ba Htoob. 1963MMBirman Catholic priest
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.4K | #4,097 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,688 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 633 | #12,279 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 384 | #12,279 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | Myanmar romanized given names (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Htoo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowing from Burmese ထူး (htu:). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Htoo?
- A machine transcription gives /tuː/ (IPA) for Burmese.
- In which country does Htoo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Dale in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Htoo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 188,893 people named Dale in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Htoo compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Htoo is the 20th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Htoo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/htooThe 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, “Htoo” — the 20th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.