Phù

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to swell

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Phù is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • SESweden1 in 82K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 87K
  • ISIceland1 in 175K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,819 people, 2020

Record sources
127 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

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 Phu in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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 swell

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Phù 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 Phù is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,8191 in 87K3.4KPhu127
SE Sweden1251 in 82K125—7
NL Netherlands311 in 557K31Phu7
DK Denmark261 in 226K23—1
FI Finland231 in 242K109—1
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

3,819 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

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

  • English given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Vietnamese

    Also written Phu, Phue, Phú, Phű, Phư

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Phú, Phũ, Phụ, Phư, Phu

  • Spanish given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Phu, Phú, Phủ, Phứ, Phư

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Phu, Phú, Phû, Phủ, Phụ

13 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

(measured from records)

Phù is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Quảng Oai công, Gia Long’s 10th son.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

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

(measured from records)
0500100015002000Fu Hong, b. 284Fu Chong, b. 301Fú Jiàn, b. 317Fu Sheng, b. 335Fú Jiān, b. 338Fu Deng, b. 343Fu Pi, b. 350Alex Fong, b. 1963Fu Bin, b. 1969Corrinne May, b. 1973
  • 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
  • Alex Fongb. 1963CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
  • Fu Binb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
  • Corrinne Mayb. 1973SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean musician

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

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Phù mean, and where does it come from?
to swell Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Phù have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Phù, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phu.
Where is Phù most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Phù is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 82 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Phù?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,819 people named Phù in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.

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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, “Phù”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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