Phyo

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/fʲioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Phyo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 509(inferred from the name graph)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 33K
  • THThailand≈1 in 272Kas พะยม

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 Phyo 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.

Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)

≈110,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 509 (inferred from the name graph)

Myanmar (Burma), est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PhyoLatin(measured from records)
พะยมThai(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled พย์ in TH Thailand.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Phyo 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.

Where Phyo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MM Myanmar (Burma)#6≈110,000 est.≈1 in 5091MPhyo102
ID Indonesia—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 70K—Phyo10
CN China—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 1M—Phyo6
MY Malaysia—≈980 est.≈1 in 33K—Phyo25
SG Singapore—≈650 est.≈1 in 9.6K—Phyo22
TH Thailand#703≈250 est.≈1 in 272K#399,015พย์69
NO Norway—81 in 683K8—2

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: This page features the most common names in Myanmar, published on WorldNames.; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Phyo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Singapore, United States, Australia, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Pĥÿò

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Phyö

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Pĥýô

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19601970198019902000Pyo Min-su, b. 1964Pyo Myeong-hui, b. 1965Pyo Chang-won, b. 1966Pyo Jin-in, b. 1967Seungmoon Pyo, b. 1970Pyo Yeong Jae, b. 1972Phyo Yong-myong, b. 1989Pyo Ye-jin, b. 1992Pyo Seung-ju, b. 1992P.O, b. 1993
  • Pyo Min-sub. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean television director
  • Pyo Myeong-huib. 1965KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
  • Pyo Chang-wonb. 1966KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean criminal psychologist
  • Pyo Jin-inb. 1967KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean psychiatrist and writer
  • Seungmoon Pyob. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean chemist
  • Pyo Yeong Jaeb. 1972KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actor
  • Phyo Yong-myongb. 1989KPNorth Korean figure skater
  • Pyo Ye-jinb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Pyo Seung-jub. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean volleyball player
  • P.Ob. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer and actor

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)

FormalDear Mr Phyo,
InformalHi Phyo,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Phyo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#62,077

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Phyo?
A machine transcription gives /fʲioʊ/ (IPA) for Burmese.
In which country does Phyo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named Phyo in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phyo.
How common is the name Phyo?
In Norway, the national register counted 8 people named Phyo, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
How common is Phyo compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Phyo is the 6th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Phyo” — the 6th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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