Vũ
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feather
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vũ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 94(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 5.6K
- USUnited States1 in 9.2K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #597 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vu in VN Vietnam, US United States, AU Australia and 4 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)
feather
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vũ 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 | #6 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 94 | 4 | Vu | 259 |
| CN China | — | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Vu | 14 |
| US United States | — | 36,179 | 1 in 9.2K | 44K | Vu | 443 |
| AO Angola | #62 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Vu | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Vu | 42 |
| AU Australia | #454 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | 4 | Vu | 220 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,456 | 1 in 3.8K | 1.5K | Vu | 34 |
| MO Macao | #236 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 896 | — | Vũ | 7 |
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 is a comprehensive guide to Vietnamese last names published by Vietnam Teaching Jobs, offering insights into t; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Vũ is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Họ gốc của một người được nhận làm con nuôi họ Đặng; về sau con cháu dùng Vũ làm chữ lót, thành gần như họ đôi Đặng-Vũ.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Họ gốc; tại Nam Hà đọc trại thành Võ vì kiêng húy chúa Nguyễn Phúc Khoát.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Hán-Việt; tên vua Hậu Lê Trung Hưng, cùng bộ kỳ.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
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)
- Wu Shihuob. 559not in their usual namefather of Wu Zetian
- Wu Zetianb. 624CNnot in their usual namefounding empress of Zhou dynasty (r. 690–705); de facto ruler of Tang dynasty from 665 to 690
- Nguyễn Sơnb. 1908VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese general (1908–1956)
- Vu Van Maub. 1914VNPrime Minister of South Vietnam (1914-1998)
- Wu Liangyongb. 1922CNnot in their usual nameChinese urban planner
- Vũ Đức Đamb. 1963VNformer Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
- Maria Tranb. 1985AUnot in their usual nameAustralian-born Vietnamese actress, producer
- Wu Leib. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Vũ Thị Trangb. 1992VNVietnamese badminton player (born 1992)
- Wu Dajingb. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese short track speed skater
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Vũ mean, and where does it come from?
- feather Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Vũ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Vũ in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vu.
- How common is the name Vũ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 36,179 people named Vũ in 2010, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Vũ compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Vũ is the 6th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vũ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/v%C5%A9The 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, “Vũ” — the 6th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.