Ungu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: purple (colour) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Ungu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country: 5 people, counted by BFS in 2024.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)purple (colour)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Ungu is found
(measured from records)Ungu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Ungu | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | Ungu | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Ungu | 3 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | — | — | Ungu | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | — | — | Ungu | 3 |
5 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)Ungu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, purple
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rup, to smear, rub in oil, grease, lubricate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, strong neuter dative singular of ungr
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ungu mean, and where does it come from?
- purple (colour) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ungu have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 5 people named Ungu, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ungu most common?
- Ungu is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ungu?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 5 people named Ungu in 2024, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/unguThe 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, “Ungu” — ranked 101952nd in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.