Nhu
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nhu is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 47th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: soft; gentle.
- VNVietnam1 in 263◐
- USUnited States1 in 109K
- AOAngola1 in 48K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.4K ●
- Sources
- 165 ●
- 1 in 55K ◐
across 8 countries
185K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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●
soft; gentle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #47 | 325,185 | 171K rec. | — | listed | Nhu | 165 |
| US United States | — | 3,043 | 13K rec. | 1 in 109K | 3K | Nhu | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 605 | 657 rec. | — | — | Nhu | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 352 | 402 rec. | — | 5 | Nhu | 36 |
| SE Sweden | — | 184△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 55K | 184 | — | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 109 | 162 rec. | — | — | Nhu | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | 102 | 162 rec. | — | — | Nhu | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 89△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 63K | 259 | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 67 | 36 rec. | 1 in 258K | 67 | — | 10 |
| RU Russia | — | 60 | 74 rec. | — | — | Nhu | 8 |
| AO Angola | — | 47 | 48 rec. | — | — | Nhu | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 35 | 38 rec. | — | 100 | Nhu | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese222K84%
- English18K7%
- 7.4K3%
- Spanish2.6K1%
- French1.5K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 222,269 | 84% |
| English | 18,290 | 7% |
| 7,358 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 2,566 | 1% |
| French | 1,477 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nhu is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
ISO 639-3 language code for Noone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, nasal mutation of tu
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 15 |
| 1982 | 15 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 14 |
| 1992 | 11 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 12 |
| 1995 | 11 |
| 1996 | 13 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 12 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 19 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 14 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 7 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2020 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1980–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nguyễn Phúc Như Maib. 1905FR(1905-1999)
- Nguyễn Phúc Như Lýb. 1908FR(1908-2005)
- Nhu Quynhb. 1970VNVietnamese singer
- Mother Mushroomb. 1979VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese blogger and dissident (born 1979)
- Nguyễn Thị Như Hoab. 1984VNVietnamese fencer
- Trịnh Thị Bích Nhưb. 1985VNVietnamese paralympic swimmer
- Khả Nhưb. 1987VNVietnamese actress
- Bùi Thị Nhưb. 1990VNassociation football player
- Huỳnh Nhưb. 1991VNVietnamese footballer
- Tiêu Châu Như Quỳnhb. 1992VNVietnamese singer
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 31 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 296 | #5,208 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 259 | #3,012 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 184 | #5,543 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 180 | #105,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 100 | #7,758 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 89 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 67 | #7,069 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 46 | #8,615 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 31 | #3,633 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 29 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 129 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nhu?
- We estimate roughly 3.4 thousand people bear Nhu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nhu have the most bearers?
- Nhu is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled nhu.
- How common is Nhu compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Nhu is the 47th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Nhu a male or female name?
- Nhu 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 Nhu mean?
- Recorded meaning: soft; gentle
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About this data
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, “Nhu” — the 47th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.