Yunu

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Yunu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Jean(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 457as Jean
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 774as Jean

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yunu 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)

270,231 named Jean, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
127 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 457 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador, as Jean

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JeanLatin(measured from records)
ยืนThai(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jean in US United States, LA Laos.

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)

Yunu 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.

Where Yunu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—270,231as Jean1 in 1.2K228KJean103
BR Brazil—171,850as Jean1 in 1.2K172K——
EC Ecuador—37,002as Jean1 in 45737K—5
CR Costa Rica—6,587as Jean1 in 7746.6K——
SE Sweden—3,987as Jean1 in 2.6K4K—2
GY Guyana—574as Jean1 in 1.3K574——
LA Laos#205———Jean24

270,231 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yunu is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, India

    Also written Yünü

  • Korean surname51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Malaysia, Canada

    Languages: Korean, English, Chinese

    Also written Yoon, 윤우, 윤배, 윤오, 윤의

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Taiwan

    Also written Yu-Nu

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yunü

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Yünü

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yunu 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 mjc, net bag

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mig, tree

    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)

  • Cho Yoon-woob. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • Kim Yoon-woob. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor

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)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

Is Yunu a male or female name?
Yunu 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.
In which country does Yunu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 270 thousand people named Jean, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Yunu most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Yunu itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 457 people named Jean.
How common is the name Yunu?
In the United States, the national register counted 270,231 people named Jean in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Yunu compared with other names?
In Laos, Yunu is the 205th most common given name of 27,499 given names recorded there.

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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, “Yunu” — the 205th most common given name in Laos. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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