Given name & surname
Vu
Vu is a surname from Vietnamese. It is used in English, French, and Czech.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 770
- 770 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 60 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 60 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,944 as a first name in 2020; 43,790 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vu’s family of names
In French usage, Vu as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Vũ.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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