Nöú

given name · Latin script

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

Nöú is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ‘To weed with a hoe’; ‘a hoe’.

rarermore common
  • PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 98K
  • USUnited States1 in 248K

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)

1,340 people, 2020

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)

Papua New Guinea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nou in US United States, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco 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)

‘To weed with a hoe’; ‘a hoe’

Sources 1

  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nöú 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 Nöú is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,3401 in 248K1KNou14
DZ Algeria#523≈140 est.≈1 in 309K—Nou13
TN Tunisia#706≈120 est.≈1 in 98K—Nou7
PG Papua New Guinea—≈75 est.≈1 in 97K7——
MA Morocco—≈61 est.≈1 in 583K—Nou13

1,340 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; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)

Nöú is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Nou, Ñöû, Ńôū, Ñoù, Ñòu

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nöú 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 Nöú mean, and where does it come from?
‘To weed with a hoe’; ‘a hoe’ Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
Is Nöú a male or female name?
Nöú 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 Nöú have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Nöú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nou.
How common is the name Nöú?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,340 people named Nöú in 2020, about 1 in 248 thousand residents.
How common is Nöú compared with other names?
In Algeria, Nöú is the 523rd most common given name of 27,215 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, “Nöú” — the 523rd most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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