Quwe

surname · Latin script

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

Quwe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 128Kas Qu(measured from records)
  • CNChina≈1 in 5.8Mas Quee
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 167K

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 Quwe 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.

United States (measured from records)

2,593 named Qu, 2010

Sources
250 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 167K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

QuLatin(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Qu in US United States, CN China, SG Singapore and Que in MY Malaysia, ES Spain, ZA South Africa.

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)

Quwe 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 Quwe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,593as Qu1 in 128K4.2KQu250
ZA South Africa≈340 est.≈1 in 167K—Que13
ES Spain336as Qu1 in 149K336Que17
CN China≈240 est.≈1 in 5.8M—Qu68
MY Malaysia≈160 est.≈1 in 208K—Que30
FI Finland96as Qu1 in 58K96—3
SE Sweden73as Qu1 in 140K73—10
SG Singapore≈63 est.≈1 in 99K—Qu29

2,593 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Quwe under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Quwe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Qu, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Quwe?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,593 people named Qu in 2010, about 1 in 128 thousand residents.

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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, “Quwe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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