Pú

Name: Pú: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Pú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).

CNChina≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
GTGuatemala≈1 in 2.3K
MYMalaysia≈1 in 34Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pú itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: China (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 218 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pu in US United States, GT Guatemala, CN China and 4 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

From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Pú 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 Pú is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CN China	—	≈670,000 est.	≈1 in 2.1K	—	Pu	51
IN India	—	≈27,000 est.	≈1 in 54K	8	Pu	33
GT Guatemala	#165	≈8,000 est.	≈1 in 2.3K	—	Pu	23
ID Indonesia	—	≈3,300 est.	≈1 in 85K	—	Pu	64
US United States	—	1,299	1 in 256K	1.8K	Pu	218
MY Malaysia	—	≈1,000 est.	≈1 in 34K	—	Pu	27
SG Singapore	—	≈120 est.	≈1 in 49K	—	Pu	26

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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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

Pú is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate surname14 spellings in the group
Most recorded in China, United States, India, United Kingdom
Also written Pu, P̤̮̣̰̮̹̣̍̂̇́̈́͐̃ū̺̲͙̝͙͈̑̓̈́̅͗͜͝, Pû, Pử, Pù
Czech surname7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, China
Languages: Czech, Slovak
Also written Pu, Pů, Pü, Pû
Bangla surname21 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, China, United States
Also written Pu, পু, Po, পূ, প্
Burmese surname11 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, United States, China
Also written Pu, Pü, Pű, Pū, Pû

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses

Pú is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In jpx-pro, growth
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 仆
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, Pooh (fictional bear)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, be fitting
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In yrl, hand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jpx-pro, поросль
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

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

Fu Hongb. 284not in their usual nameChieftain and general served under Later Zhao and Ran Wei
Fu Chongb. 301not in their usual nameformer Qin emperor
Fú Jiànb. 317not in their usual namefounding emperor of the Di-led Chinese Former Qin dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period
Fu Shengb. 335not in their usual nameformer Qin emperor
Fú Jiānb. 338CNnot in their usual namethird emperor of Former Qin during the he Sixteen Kingdoms period
Fu Dengb. 343not in their usual nameformer Qin emperor
Fu Pib. 350not in their usual nameformer Qin emperor
Pu Songlingb. 1640CNChinese writer (1640–1715)
Mu-ming Poob. 1948USnot in their usual nameChinese-American neuroscientist
Pu Cunxinb. 1953CNChinese actor

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).

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pú 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 Pú mean, and where does it come from?: From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary.
In which country does Pú have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 673 thousand people named Pú in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pu.
How common is the name Pú?: In the United States, the national register counted 1,299 people named Pú in 2010, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.
How common is Pú compared with other names?: In Guatemala, Pú is the 165th most common surname of 54,341 surnames 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 2026-10-13 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, “Pú” — the 165th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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