Blüe
surname · Latin script
Blüe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Argyll, Lanarks, and. anglicization of Gaelic MacGhilleghuirm ‘son of the blue lad’.
- USUnited States1 in 14K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 21K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 15K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 439 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
24,341 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Blue in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 2 more and Blü in DE Germany.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Argyll, Lanarks, and. anglicization of Gaelic MacGhilleghuirm ‘son of the blue lad’.
Cited for this meaning 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Blüe 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 | 24,341 | 1 in 14K | 24K | Blue | 439 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Blue | 144 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Blue | 130 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 15 | — | 23 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Blü | 50 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Blue | 44 |
| GY Guyana | 34 | 1 in 22K | 34 | — | 2 |
| SM San Marino | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Blue | 1 |
24,341 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blüe mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Argyll, Lanarks, and. anglicization of Gaelic MacGhilleghuirm ‘son of the blue lad’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Blüe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Blüe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blue.
- Where is Blüe most common?
- Blüe is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Blüe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,341 people named Blüe in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand 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, “Blüe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.