Given name & surname
Woo
Woo is a surname from Mandarin, ultimately from Cantonese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Woo comes from Mandarin, and ultimately from Cantonese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Woo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 5 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 5 in 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,058 as a first name in 2020; 13,207 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.
Woo’s family of names
In English usage, Woo as a surname has a related form in Wu. In English usage, Woo as a surname has a related form in BOO. In English usage, Woo as a surname has a related form in OU.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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