Heu
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of highly-enriched uranium
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hju/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2Kas Hooi(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 213Kas Hoi
- VNVietnam≈1 in 222K
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 Heu 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 222K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Hooi, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hooi in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, ID Indonesia and 3 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(measured from records)
Initialism of highly-enriched uranium.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Heu is read(measured from records)
Heu is one spelling over 3 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.
- English50%
Initialism of highly-enriched uranium.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French30%
hoy (small coaster vessel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Heu in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Heu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #146 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Hooi | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Hooi | 15 |
| US United States | — | 1,561as Hoi | 1 in 213K | 9.5K | Heu | 155 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Hooi | 10 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 222K | listed | Hooi | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Hooi | 54 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 174as Hoi | 1 in 99K | 488 | Hooi | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 74as Hoi | 1 in 138K | 74 | — | 7 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Heu 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 cdo, A KE a the 2nd rank of nobility, a marquis, a target, handsome but, S
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In bpz, bind together; roof of a house (tying lontar leaves or bundles or _alang-alang_ grass to the slats of the roof)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, oh! alas! ah!, ay! (expressing dismay, grief, pain, indignation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Second-person singular personal pronoun; you
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)
- Hou Songb. 1737not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 74619
- Josef Heub. 1876ATAustrian painter and sculptor (1876-1952)
- Hou Minnot in their usual namepolitician
- Hou Tianlinnot in their usual nameYuan dynasty person CBDB = 104646
- Hou Shinot in their usual namewife of Liulun
- Hou Denot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 402075
- Hou Xiannot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 402076
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 910 | #27,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 796 | #29,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 637 | #33,735 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Heu mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of highly-enriched uranium. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Heu?
- A machine transcription gives /hju/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Heu?
- In the etymology graph, Hay is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Heu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Hooi in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Heu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,561 people named Hoi in 2020, about 1 in 213 thousand residents.
- How common is Heu compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Heu is the 146th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Heu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heuThe 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, “Heu” — the 146th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.