Yunu
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Yunu is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 457as Jean(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 774as Jean
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Jean
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 Yunu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- 1 in 457 (inferred from the name graph)
270,231 named Jean, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador, as Jean
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jean in US United States, LA Laos.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yunu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 270,231as Jean | 1 in 1.2K | 228K | Jean | 103 |
| BR Brazil | — | 171,850as Jean | 1 in 1.2K | 172K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 37,002as Jean | 1 in 457 | 37K | — | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 6,587as Jean | 1 in 774 | 6.6K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,987as Jean | 1 in 2.6K | 4K | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 574as Jean | 1 in 1.3K | 574 | — | — |
| LA Laos | #205 | — | — | — | Jean | 24 |
270,231 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Yunu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mjc, net bag
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mig, tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Cho Yoon-woob. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Kim Yoon-woob. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yunu a male or female name?
- Yunu 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 named Yunu?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 270 thousand people named Jean, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Yunu most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Yunu itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 457 people named Jean.
- How common is the name Yunu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 270,231 people named Jean in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Yunu compared with other names?
- In Laos, Yunu is the 205th most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yunu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yunuThe 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, “Yunu” — the 205th most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.