Êu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ugly

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

Êu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.7M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

189 people

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ëü in PH Philippines.

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)

ugly

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Êu 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 Êu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1891 in 1.1M189—1
US United States1241 in 2.7M124—9
PH Philippines———Ëü2
FI Finland——10—1
SE Sweden——5—1

189 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Australia

    Also written Eu, Eü, Ëü, Êü, Ëû

  • Korean surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, Malaysia, United States, Hong Kong

    Also written 으, Oi, Ooi, Euh, Oj

  • French surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Philippines

    Also written Eu, Ëü, Éü, Eü, Eù

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ếu, Eu, Ëu

  • Estonian name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia

    Also written Eu, Ểu, Ëü, Éù, Eü

3 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Stephen Au, b. 1963Ou Ning, b. 1969Tash Aw, b. 1971Au Wai Lun, b. 1971Jeanette Aw, b. 1979Stephanie Au, b. 1992Oho Ou, b. 1992Ou Xuanyi, b. 1994Howey Ou, b. 2002Ou Yushan, b. 2004
  • Stephen Aub. 1963CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
  • Ou Ningb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameChinese artist
  • Tash Awb. 1971MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian writer (1971–)
  • Au Wai Lunb. 1971CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong footballer
  • Jeanette Awb. 1979SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean actress
  • Stephanie Aub. 1992HKnot in their usual nameHong Kong swimmer
  • Oho Oub. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor and singer
  • Ou Xuanyib. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese badminton player
  • Howey Oub. 2002CNnot in their usual nameChinese climate activist
  • Ou Yushanb. 2004CNnot in their usual nameChinese artistic gymnast

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Êu under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Êu mean, and where does it come from?
ugly Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Êu have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 189 people named Êu, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Êu most common?
Êu is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Êu?
In Brazil, the national register counted 189 people named Êu, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AAu

The 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, “Êu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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