Khu
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Khu is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: district, area, zone.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
district, area, zone
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the vn-kaggle-surname register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Khu is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, In ancient Egyptian mythology, a part of the soul or spirit which left the body after death.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kha, crop, craw, stomach of an animal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mtq, caterpillar; grub (as pests)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ctd, smoke
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Khoo Boon Huib. 1954SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean police chief
- Albert Aub. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer
- Herman Yaub. 1961CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong filmmaker and cinematographer
- Chingmy Yaub. 1968CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Ou Chuliangb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Qiu Miaojinb. 1969TWnot in their usual namenovelist (1969–1995)
- Chiu Hsien-chihb. 1976TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese politician
- Roy Chiub. 1981TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor and singer
- Qiu Lib. 1981SGnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Qiu Bob. 1993CNnot in their usual nameChinese diver
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
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 Khu mean, and where does it come from?
- district, area, zone Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Khu have the most bearers?
- Khu is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Khu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khuThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Khu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.