Cuè
surname · Latin script
Cuè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Form of Latin qū. First attested as Middle English cu for half a farthing, as an abbreviation for Latin quadrāns (“quarter of an as”).. Compare French qu.
- UYUruguay1 in 103K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 123 (measured from records)
- 1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
1,593 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cué in US United States, AR Argentina and Cue in 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)Form of Latin qū. First attested as Middle English cu for half a farthing, as an abbreviation for Latin quadrāns (“quarter of an as”).. Compare French qu.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cuè 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 | 1,593 | 1 in 209K | 1.6K | Cué | 123 |
| ES Spain | 577 | 1 in 87K | 577 | Cue | 64 |
| AR Argentina | 72 | 1 in 632K | 72 | Cué | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | 33 | 1 in 103K | 33 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 2 |
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Cuè mean, and where does it come from?
- Form of Latin qū. First attested as Middle English cu for half a farthing, as an abbreviation for Latin quadrāns (“quarter of an as”).. Compare French qu. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Cuè have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Cuè, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cué.
- Where is Cuè most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cuè is densest in Spain — about 1 in 87 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cuè?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,593 people named Cuè in 2010, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cu%C3%A8The 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, “Cuè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.