Miu

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Miu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is the 93rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Japanese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a pussy-cat (affectionate term for a cat).

rarermore common
  • HKHong Kong1 in 1.8K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 766K
  • TWTaiwan1 in 162K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈474 ●

across 7 countries

Sources
173 ●

13K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 507K ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

a pussy-cat (affectionate term for a cat)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Miu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HK Hong Kong#932,0901.7K rec.——Miu55
TW Taiwan—60853 rec.——Miu35
AU Australia—484859 rec.——Miu43
US United States—4348.5K rec.1 in 766K568Miu173
GB United Kingdom—300566 rec.——Miu48
CA Canada—209430 rec.—1Miu40
MY Malaysia—160164 rec.——Miu20
CN China—15849 rec.——Miu22
RO Romania—30118 rec.——Miu40
JP Japan—282 rec.——Miu4
SG Singapore—2672 rec.——Miu13
NL Netherlands—14149 rec.1 in 1.2M14Miu5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English4.8K22%
  • Japanese4.7K22%
  • Vietnamese4.5K21%
  • Chinese4.1K19%
  • Spanish5042%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English4,84722%
Japanese4,70622%
Vietnamese4,50321%
Chinese4,11919%
Spanish5042%

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◐

Miu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.9K records spelled Miu9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hong Kong, China, Spain, Russia

    Also written Mỉu, Mĩu, Mïu, Mìu, Míu

  • Romanian given name1.9K records spelled Miu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy, Spain, United States

  • French given name1.0K records spelled Miu6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

    Also written Miù, Mïu, Miü, Miū

49 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●

Miu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of miǔ

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

  • In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of みう

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

  • In Chinese, variant of Miao.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Chinese, unexplained.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Cacaloxtepec Mixtec.

    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.

Over time●

02.557.51020052010201520209 · 2003

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Miu in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 2001–2023
Yearrecords
20015
20039
20045
20055
20078
20089
20096
20107
20117
20146
20157
20166
20196
20236

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 2001–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Miu Kakiya, b. 1959Miu Sakamoto, b. 1980Miu Akemi, b. 1994Miu Arioka, b. 1995Miu Hirano, b. 2000Miu Tomita, b. 2000Suzuki Miu, b. 2000Miu Gotō, b. 2001Miu Shitao, b. 2001Miu Arai, b. 2006

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●

Attested in 43 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Miu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020568#41,313
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010493#43,732
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020434#22,276
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000407#48,665
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—275#12,961
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—275#12,912
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—31#14,994
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—24#173,031
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200823#43,500
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#27,974
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—18#43,702
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—15#30,145

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 58 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Miu?
We estimate roughly 474 people bear Miu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Miu have the most bearers?
Miu is most frequently recorded in Hong Kong, where it is most often spelled miu.
How common is Miu compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Miu is the 93rd most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
Is Miu a male or female name?
Miu is a female 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.
What does the name Miu mean?
Recorded meaning: a pussy-cat (affectionate term for a cat)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Miu” — the 93rd most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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