Uju
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Abundance
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/uʒu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Uju is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 5.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2M
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 921K
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)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Abundance
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uju 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 | #809 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | Uju | 74 |
| US United States | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Uju | 119 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 921K | — | Uju | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 18 | Uju | 55 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 1 | Uju | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Uju | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | 1 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Uju 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 tut-pro, sad, ashamed
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In zko, he (third person singular masculine subjective pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( V-m ap. A Apend ). "Sospecha" , "recelo" A Apend. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In pi, straight, right
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tft, to wash clothes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Woo Joo Kimb. 1959KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean physician and professor
- Kim Woo-joob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean ballad singer and lyricist
- Lee Woo-joob. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, born 1988
- Lee Woo-joob. 2004KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean Go player
- Lee Woo-joob. 2009KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean child actor, born 2009
- Uju AnyaNGNigerian applied linguistics professor and researcher
- Uju OnwudiweNGA Nigerian politician and accountant; member of the Imo State House of Assembly representing Njaba State Constituency
- Uju UmoNGNigerian Professor of Education
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 12 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Uju mean, and where does it come from?
- Abundance Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Uju?
- A machine transcription gives /uʒu/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Uju a male or female name?
- Uju is a female 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.
- In which country does Uju have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Uju in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uju.
- How common is the name Uju?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 5 people named Uju, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Uju compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Uju is the 809th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Uju?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ujuThe 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, “Uju” — the 809th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.