Yuwen
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
/juən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yuwen is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 26K
- USUnited States1 in 486K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Taiwan, est.
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-Wen 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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yuwen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Yuwen | 64 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Yu-Wen | 69 |
| US United States | 685 | 1 in 486K | 461 | Yuwen | 132 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 959K | — | Yuwen | 17 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Yuwen | 9 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Yuwen | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Yuwen | 16 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | — | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yuwen Taib. 505Northern Wei general
- Yuwen Hub. 515Northern Zhou prince
- Emperor Ming of Northern Zhoub. 534not in their usual nameNorthern Zhou emperor
- Emperor Xiaomin of Northern Zhoub. 542not in their usual nameNorthern Zhou emperor
- Yuwen Yongb. 543Northern Zhou emperor
- Yuwen Shub. 546Northern Zhou general (546-616)
- Emperor Xuan of Northern Zhoub. 559not in their usual nameNorthern Zhou emperor
- Yuwen Huajib. 569Chinese military general, monarch, and politician (died 619)
- Yuwen Shijib. 572CNChinese chancellor (572-642)
- Emperor Jing of Northern Zhoub. 573not in their usual nameEmperor of Northern Zhou
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 461 | #16,455 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 224 | #16,455 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Yuwen?
- A machine transcription gives /juən/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- Is Yuwen a male or female name?
- Yuwen is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Yuwen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Yuwen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yuwen.
- How common is the name Yuwen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 685 people named Yuwen in 2020, about 1 in 486 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Yuwen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yuwenThe 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, “Yuwen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.