Usi

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Abbreviation of United Submitters International

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Usi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.3M
  • MWMalawi≈1 in 13K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,600 people, est.

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Malawi, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Abbreviation of United Submitters International.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Usi is read(measured from records)

Usi is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English43%

    Abbreviation of United Submitters International.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish17%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Usi in Spanish.

  • Hindi9.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Usi in Hindi.

  • Swahili8.7%

    difficulty

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Usi 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 Usi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈2,600 est.≈1 in 42K—Usi41
MW Malawi≈1,600 est.≈1 in 13K1—8
NG Nigeria≈950 est.≈1 in 226KlistedUsi19
TZ Tanzania≈560 est.≈1 in 104K—Usi7
US United States2521 in 1.3M305Usi106
MY Malaysia≈76 est.≈1 in 431K—Usi8

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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)

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

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Üsi

  • Turkish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Üsi, Üşi, Uşi, Ushi, Ûsī

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ūšī

44 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Usi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Smoke.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • hard

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In poz-cmp-pro, relative of the third ascending or descending generation

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In bpz, chase, pursue (as when setting dogs after a deer)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Usi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020305#69,365
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010252#76,275
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000185#92,217
MW MalawiWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#89
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Usi mean, and where does it come from?
Abbreviation of United Submitters International. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Usi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Usi in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled usi.
How common is the name Usi?
In the United States, the national register counted 252 people named Usi in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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, “Usi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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