Youha
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Youha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 83rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 25Kas Yoo(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 187Kas Yuhui
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 9.5Mas Yooha
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Youha itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
13,225 named Yoo, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Yoo
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yuhui in CN China, BR Brazil, AR Argentina, Yoo in US United States, KR South Korea and Yu-Hui in TW Taiwan.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Youha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,225as Yoo | 1 in 25K | 14K | Yoo | 296 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Yuhui | 75 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Yu-Hui | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 200as Yoo | 1 in 1.1M | 200 | Yuhui | 7 |
| AR Argentina | — | 192as Yoo | 1 in 237K | 192 | Yuhui | 4 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 155K | 6 | — | 31 |
| FI Finland | — | 52as Yoo | 1 in 107K | 52 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 47as Yoo | 1 in 179K | 47 | — | 9 |
| KR South Korea | #83 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 9.5M | 192 | Yoo | 214 |
13,225 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; Supreme Court — newborn given names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Youha have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Yoo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Youha most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Youha itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people named Yoo.
- How common is the name Youha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,225 people named Yoo in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Youha compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Youha is the 83rd most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Youha?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/youhaThe 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, “Youha” — the 83rd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.