Lúe

surname · Latin script

Lúe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Perhaps an altered form of the Dutch and North German name Loo, which is also established in northern France.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 159K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 128K
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

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.

United States (measured from records)

2,088 people, 2020

Sources
70 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lue in US United States, BR Brazil, CU Cuba.

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)

Perhaps an altered form of the Dutch and North German name Loo, which is also established in northern France.

Sources 2

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lúe 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 Lúe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,0881 in 159K1.3KLue70
BR Brazil—1011 in 2.1M101Lue22
DK Denmark—461 in 128K34——
PL Poland—21 in 19M2——
GY Guyana—11 in 750K1——
CU Cuba#913———Lue2

2,088 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lúe under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lúe mean, and where does it come from?
Perhaps an altered form of the Dutch and North German name Loo, which is also established in northern France. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
In which country does Lúe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Lúe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lue.
Where is Lúe most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lúe is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 128 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lúe?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,088 people named Lúe in 2020, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
How common is Lúe compared with other names?
In Cuba, Lúe is the 913th most common given name of 6,267 given names recorded there.

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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, “Lúe” — the 913th most common given name in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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