Gyu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡju/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gyu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 24Kas 규(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 223Kas Kyu
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 5.7Kas Kyu
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 Gyu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 named Kyu, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est., as Kyu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kyu in US United States, KR South Korea, CA Canada and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gyu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Kyu | 21 |
| KP North Korea | #171 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Kyu | 26 |
| AO Angola | #861 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Kyu | 1 |
| KR South Korea | #940 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Kyu | 186 |
| US United States | — | 1,495as Kyu | 1 in 223K | 1K | Kyu | 223 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 19 | Kyu | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Kyu | 42 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Gyu 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 Japanese, The hiragana syllable ぎゅ (gyu) or the katakana syllable ギュ (gyu) in Hepburn romanization.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of Jew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In za, wild amaranth; pigweed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In acn, snow
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)
- Cheon Byung-kyub. 1918KRSouth Korean diplomat (1918-1993)
- Kyoo KimKRnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Kyu Joo ParkKRresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-9134-7426)
- Kyu HeoUSresearcher
- Kyu Young Songresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 97 | #48,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 32 | #48,840 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Gyu?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡju/ (IPA) for Korean.
- Is Gyu a male or female name?
- Gyu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gyu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Kyu in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gyu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,495 people named Kyu in 2020, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
- How common is Gyu compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Gyu is the 171st most common given name of 2,746 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gyu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gyuThe 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, “Gyu” — the 171st most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.