Ugo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Italian form of English }Hugh (see main dictionary)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/yɡo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ugo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 8.3K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 6.3K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Italian form of English }Hugh (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ugo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Ugo | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 7 | Ugo | 36 |
| FR France | #852 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 11K | Ugo | 282 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,342 | 1 in 63K | 5.7K | — | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Ugo | 36 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 2 | Ugo | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 18 | Ugo | 8 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Ugo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a male given name, equivalent to English Hugh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Germanico Hug, latinizzato Hugo/Hugonis, 'spirito'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Eagle
as a nameThe book of African names
In Italian, forma italiana de Hugo, Hugonis
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Hugh the Greatb. 898FRnot in their usual nameDuke of the Franks and Count of Paris (c. 898–956)
- Hugh I, Count of Vermandoisb. 1057TRnot in their usual nameFrench noble
- Hugues de Paynsb. 1074ITnot in their usual nameGrand Master of the Knights Templar
- Hugh I of Cyprusb. 1193LBnot in their usual nameKing of Cyprus (1193-1218)
- Hugh III of Cyprusb. 1235TRnot in their usual nameKing of Cyprus (r. 1267-1284) and King of Jerusalem (r. 1268-1284)
- papa Gregorio XIIIb. 1502ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585 (1502–1585)
- Ugo Foscolob. 1778GRItalian writer and poet (1778–1827)
- Ugo Tognazzib. 1922ITItalian film and theatre actor, director and screenwriter (1922-1990)
- Hugo Prattb. 1927ITnot in their usual nameItalian comic book creator (1927-1995)
- Giannis Antetokounmpob. 1994GRnot in their usual nameNigerian-Greek basketball player (born 1994)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 11K | #548 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.7K | #3,084 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.3K | #3,608 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 250 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 7 | #1,174 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Ugo a male or female name?
- Ugo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ugo mean, and where does it come from?
- Italian form of English }Hugh (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Ugo?
- In the etymology graph, Hugo, Hugh and Hugues are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ugo?
- A machine transcription gives /yɡo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Ugo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Ugo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ugo.
- How common is the name Ugo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,342 people named Ugo in 2022, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Ugo compared with other names?
- In France, Ugo is the 852nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ugo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ugoThe 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, “Ugo” — the 852nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.