Cü
surname · Latin script
Cü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 邱 (Khu), via Spanish Cu. Doublet of Coo and Khoo.
- NONorway1 in 161K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 223K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
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 Cü 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)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
1,593 named Cue, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cu in US United States.
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)- Hokkien邱Khu(measured from records)
- SpanishCu(measured from records)
From Hokkien 邱 (Khu), via Spanish Cu. Doublet of Coo and Khoo.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cü 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.
1,593 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling cue. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Cü 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 Turkish, initialism of Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pox, what
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cü mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hokkien 邱 (Khu), via Spanish Cu. Doublet of Coo and Khoo. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Cü have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Cue, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cü most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cü is densest in Norway — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cü?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 99 people named Cü, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%BCThe 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, “Cü”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.