Ichu

surname · Latin script

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

Ichu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A grass of species Stipa ichu.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 7.1M(measured from records)

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.

Spain (measured from records)

7 people

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.1M (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 I-Chu in AU Australia.

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)

A grass of species Stipa ichu.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ichu 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 Ichu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7——
NG Nigeria———Ichu13
US United States———Ichu23
AU Australia———I-Chu4
ZA South Africa———Ichu3
GB United Kingdom———Ichu6
BO Bolivia———Ichu4

7 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

Ichu is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Îchü

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan

    Also written I-Chu

24 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Ichu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ichu mean, and where does it come from?
A grass of species Stipa ichu. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Ichu have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 7 people named Ichu, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ichu most common?
Ichu is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Ichu?
In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Ichu, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.

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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ichu

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Ichu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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