Phö
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Phö is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese phở.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 180Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 180Kfew records
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pho in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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)Borrowed from Vietnamese phở.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Phö is found
(measured from records)Phö 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | — | 2 |
| US United States | 1,333 | 1 in 250K | 1.5K | Pho | 214 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 255K | listed | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 281K | 45 | Pho | 29 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 455K | — | Pho | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Pho | 69 |
| AU Australia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Pho | 76 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Pho | 13 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Phö mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese phở. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Phö a male or female name?
- Phö is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Phö?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Phö in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Indonesia, United Kingdom and Congo - Kinshasa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Phö?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,333 people named Phö in 2010, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ph%C3%B6The 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, “Phö”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.