Lú
given name · Latin script
Meaning: delusional
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 11K
- NONorway1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
35,628 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lu in US United States, ES Spain, AO Angola and 1 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)
delusional
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lú 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 35,628 | 1 in 9.3K | 47K | Lu | 192 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,818 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Lu | 61 |
| AO Angola | #187 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Lu | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 766 | 1 in 13K | 766 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 492 | 1 in 11K | 492 | — | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 474 | 1 in 12K | 474 | — | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 260 | 1 in 23K | 260 | — | — |
| SM San Marino | #146 | — | — | — | Lu | 4 |
35,628 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Lú 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盧 /卢
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, comparative degree of beag
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbj, to rain, to pour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tli, nose
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)
- Lu Zhib. 159CNChinese scholar, official and general (159–192)
- Huinengb. 638CNnot in their usual namesemi-legendary Chinese Chan (Zen) patriarch
- Lisa Lub. 1927USChinese actress (born 1927)
- Helena Lawb. 1934GBnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Lowell Lob. 1950USnot in their usual nameHong Kong male singer-songwriter, film music composer, and actor
- Ken Lob. 1959CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong martial artist
- Donald Lub. 1966USAmerican diplomat
- Candy Lob. 1974CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and singer
- Joelle Lub. 1976TWTaiwanese actress and model
- Eric Lub. 1997USAmerican pianist (born 1997)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lú mean, and where does it come from?
- delusional Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lú?
- A machine transcription gives /lu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Lú a male or female name?
- Lú 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 Lú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Lú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lu.
- Where is Lú most common?
- Lú is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,628 people named Lú in 2010, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Lú compared with other names?
- In San Marino, Lú is the 146th most common surname of 4,503 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lú?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%BAThe 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, “Lú” — the 146th most common surname in San Marino. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.