Humu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Mu locative class|mu class_((XVIII))]] inflected form of hii
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: NEC/ECSL, 2018
/humu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Humu is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country.
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 33K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 615K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sierra Leone, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Mu locative class|mu class_((XVIII))]] inflected form of hii
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Humu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #898 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Humu | 16 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | — | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 615K | — | Humu | 9 |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | — | Humu | 51 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Humu | 22 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 30 | — | — |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. 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)Humu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nak, cook on the hearth by covering food with heated stones
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In niu, a species of fish (black in color, with yellow tints)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Tongan, kind of fish
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #30,965 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,796 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates | 2018 | 2 | #44 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Humu mean, and where does it come from?
- [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#Mu locative class|mu class_((XVIII))]] inflected form of hii Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Humu?
- A machine transcription gives /humu/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Humu a male or female name?
- Humu is a female 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 Humu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 891 people named Humu in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled humu.
- How common is the name Humu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 890 people in Ghana have Humu as their first given name, about 1 in 33 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Humu compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Humu is the 898th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Humu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/humuThe 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, “Humu” — the 898th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.