Лиу
surname · Cyrillic script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Лиу is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 16th most common surname.
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 59as Liu(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 98as Liu
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 165as Liu
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 Лиу 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #614 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000,000 named Liu, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Taiwan, est., as Liu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Liu in US United States, CN China, AU Australia and 4 more.
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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Лиу 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 | #254 | ≈14,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 98 | — | Liu | 284 |
| TW Taiwan | #102 | ≈400,000 est. | ≈1 in 59 | — | Liu | 209 |
| US United States | #285 | 78,370as Liu | 1 in 4.2K | 127K | Liu | 521 |
| HK Hong Kong | #16 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 165 | — | Liu | 140 |
| MY Malaysia | #225 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Liu | 79 |
| AU Australia | #63 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Liu | 266 |
| SG Singapore | #32 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 852 | — | Liu | 147 |
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. 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)
- Liu Chuanzhib. 1944CNChinese businessman
- Lucy Liub. 1968USAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Marjorie Liub. 1979USAmerican writer
- Liu Yanb. 1980CNChinese actress (1980- )
- Annie Liub. 1981TWTaiwanese Canadian actress
- Liu Yifeib. 1987CNChinese-American actress and singer (born 1987)
- Natasha Liu Bordizzob. 1994AUAustralian actress
- Kate Liub. 1994SGAmerican pianist
- Sam Liub. 2000USanimation director and storyboard artist
- Alysa Liub. 2005USAmerican figure skater (born 2005)
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Лиу have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 million people named Liu in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Лиу?
- In the United States, the national register counted 78,370 people named Liu in 2010, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Лиу compared with other names?
- In China, Лиу is the 254th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Лиу?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%83The 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, “Лиу” — the 254th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.