Mü
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mü is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Chinese in the state of Song during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 Bc) there existed a leader who was posthumously given the name of the duke of Mu. His descendants adopted Mu as their surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 83K
- ATAustria≈1 in 130K
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
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
1,803 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mue in US United States and Mu in ES Spain.
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)
Chinese in the state of Song during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 Bc) there existed a leader who was posthumously given the name of the duke of Mu. His descendants adopted Mu as their surname.
Sources 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Dictionary of surnames used in China 中国姓氏辞典
- YorùbáName Dictionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mü 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.
1,803 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mu. 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Mü 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 Turkish, Used to form interrogatives.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In syd-pro, inside, interior
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mch, to tie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In chm-pro, honey
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 Mü mean, and where does it come from?
- Chinese in the state of Song during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 Bc) there existed a leader who was posthumously given the name of the duke of Mu. His descendants adopted Mu as their surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Mü have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Mü, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mue.
- How common is the name Mü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,803 people named Mü in 2010, about 1 in 184 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%BCThe 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, “Mü”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.