Cué

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cué 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.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 87K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 103K
  • USUnited States1 in 209K

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)

1,593 people, 2010

Sources
123 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 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.

Sources 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)

Cué 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.

Where Cué is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,5931 in 209K1.6KCué123
ES Spain5771 in 87K577Cue64
AR Argentina721 in 632K72Cué27
UY Uruguay331 in 103K33—5
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10—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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cué is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Cue, ́cue

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States

    Also written Cue, Cúe

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cue

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Cue

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cue

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Cue

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Ramón Cué Romano, b. 1914Ana María Cué, b. 1941Elena Cué, b. 1972Carlos E. Cué, b. 1974

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)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Cué
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cué 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 Cué have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Cué, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cué.
Where is Cué most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cué 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 Cué?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,593 people named Cué 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%A9

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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, “Cué”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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