Miù
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Miù is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Miao.
- FIFinland1 in 507K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
- USUnited States1 in 742K
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
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 507K (inferred from the name graph)
448 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Miu in US United States, IT Italy.
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)
variant of Miao.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miù 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 | 448 | 1 in 742K | 568 | Miu | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 11 | 1 in 507K | 31 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 14 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Miu | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
448 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Miù 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繆 /缪
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miù mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Miao. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- In which country does Miù have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 448 people named Miù, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miu.
- Where is Miù most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Miù is densest in Finland — about 1 in 507 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Miù?
- In the United States, the national register counted 448 people named Miù in 2020, about 1 in 742 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mi%C3%B9The 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, “Miù”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.