Bú
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Vietnamese: to suck; to suckle
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 147K
- USUnited States1 in 336K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
989 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bu in BR Brazil, ES Spain.
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)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繼 /继
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bú is read(measured from records)
Bú 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.
- Vietnamese49%
to suck; to suckle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese25%
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繼 /继
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bú in Arabic.
- Portuguese5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bú in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bú 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.
989 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Bú 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.
In Hungarian, grief, sorrow
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In bnt-pro, soil, ashes, dust
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, dwelling, household, farm, estate, housekeeping, home
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, vocative/accusative plural of bó
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)
- 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
- King Wu of Chub. 750not in their usual nameKing of Chu
- Vu Van Maub. 1914VNnot in their usual namePrime Minister of South Vietnam (1914-1998)
- Wu Liangyongb. 1922CNnot in their usual nameChinese urban planner
- Wu Weihuab. 1956CNnot in their usual nameChinese biologist and politician
- Mu Qimiyab. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Wu Leib. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Wu Yangb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese table tennis player
- 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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bú come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繼 /继 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Bú mean?
- In Vietnamese, to suck; to suckle
- Is Bú a male or female name?
- Bú 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.
- In which country does Bú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 989 people named Bú, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bú most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bú is densest in Norway — about 1 in 9.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 989 people named Bú in 2010, about 1 in 336 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bú?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BAThe 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, “Bú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.