Yú
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 丂
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 39th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 7.9K
- NONorway1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
52,035 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yu in US United States, HK Hong Kong.
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)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 丂
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yú 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.
52,035 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
Yú is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In den, clothes
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dnn, water
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)
- Yu Kil-chunb. 1856KRKorean politician (1856-1914)
- Yu Lanb. 1921CNChinese actress (1921-2020)
- Ronny Yub. 1950CNHong Kong film director, producer and screenwriter
- Yu Rongguangb. 1958CNChinese actor and film director
- Paul Yub. 1970TWTaiwanese voice actor
- Yu Zheng Changb. 1973TWTaiwanese voice actor
- Yu Zhengb. 1978CNChinese screenwriter
- Yu Yangb. 1986CNChinese badminton player, born 1986
- Yu Dabaob. 1988CNChinese footballer
- Yu Wenxiab. 1989CNChinese beauty queen
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yú mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 丂 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Yú have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Yú, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yu.
- Where is Yú most common?
- Yú is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 52,035 people named Yú in 2010, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Yú compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Yú is the 39th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C3%BAThe 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, “Yú” — the 39th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.