Huu

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Hữu in SG Singapore.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Huu is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name122K records spelled Huu47 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Singapore

  Also written Hữu, Húu, H̼̜ͯ̉ữ͍̞͇͂̃ͪ̄͌ụ͔̯̻̂̅̽͂̆̐̒̀, Hựu, Hữû

• English given name36K records spelled Huu31 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Hữu, Hưu, Hửu, Hüü, Hûu

• a separate given name15K records spelled Huu9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Hưu, Hưũ, Hửu, Hùu, Hư̄u

• Spanish given name6.0K records spelled Huu17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, United Kingdom

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Hữu, Huū, Hửu, Hüü, Hüů

• French given name5.5K records spelled Huu19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

  Also written Hữu, Huü, Hûu, Hu'U, Hưư

• Czech given name1.5K records spelled Huu4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Húu, Hữu

• Finnish given name984 records spelled Huu6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Hưu, Hüü, Hữu

54 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●

Huu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swahili, [[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#M-mi class|m class_((III))]]/[[Appendix:Swahili_noun_classes#U class|u class_((XI))]] inflected form of hii

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In aia, mass (as of black ants), clump (as of _tomaho_ shrubs), cluster (as of singers)

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In apb, clump, stool, bunch, group (as of excrement, leaves, trees, bamboo)

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• ISO 639-3 language code for Murui Huitoto.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In aia, beginning, origin; mass, clump, cluster

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In apb, a littoral tree: Barringtonia speciosa

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tran Van Huub. 1896VNPrime Ministers of the Republic of Vietnam (1896–1984)
• Lương Bích Hữub. 1984VNVietnamese singer
• Trần Hữu Tuấn Báchb. 1989VNVietnamese composer
• Duy Khánhb. 1994VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese actor, comedian, singer and television presenter (born 1995)
• Huu Mikamib. 1997JPJapanese badminton player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Huu?

We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Huu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Huu have the most bearers?

Huu is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled huu.

How common is Huu compared with other names?

In Vietnam, Huu is the 46th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.

Is Huu a male or female name?

Huu 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.