Moü
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Moü is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Cantonese 冇 (mou5).
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.3K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 17K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mou in US United States, MY Malaysia, CN China and 1 more, Mòu in DZ Algeria, Moue in CM Cameroon and Moù in MA Morocco.
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)
From Cantonese 冇 (mou5).
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moü 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Mou | 33 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Mòu | 9 |
| MA Morocco | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Moù | 13 |
| FR France | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 151K | 8 | — | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Mou | 22 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Moue | 3 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mou | 25 |
| US United States | 188 | 1 in 1.8M | 944 | Mou | 190 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moü mean, and where does it come from?
- From Cantonese 冇 (mou5). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- Is Moü a male or female name?
- Moü is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Moü have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Moü in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mou.
- How common is the name Moü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 188 people named Moü in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mo%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, “Moü”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.