Mů
surname · Latin script
Mů is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Chinese in the state of Song during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 Bc) there existed a leader who was posthumously given the name of the duke of Mu. His descendants adopted Mu as their surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 83K
- NONorway1 in 152K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mü in DE Germany, AT Austria, NO Norway, Mue in US United States and Mu in ES Spain.
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)Chinese in the state of Song during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 Bc) there existed a leader who was posthumously given the name of the duke of Mu. His descendants adopted Mu as their surname.
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Dictionary of surnames used in China 中国姓氏辞典
- YorùbáName Dictionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mů 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.
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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mů mean, and where does it come from?
- Chinese in the state of Song during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 Bc) there existed a leader who was posthumously given the name of the duke of Mu. His descendants adopted Mu as their surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Mů have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Mů in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mü.
- How common is the name Mů?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,803 people named Mů in 2010, about 1 in 184 thousand residents.
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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, “Mů”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.