Given name & surname · also Wade–Giles
You
You is a surname from Wade–Giles, ultimately from Mandarin.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
You comes from Wade–Giles, and ultimately from Mandarin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
You through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 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 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,385 as a first name in 2020; 8,344 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.
You’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named You
- You XieChinese-German politician and writerborn 1958
- Feng YoulanChinese philosopher and historian (1895–1990)
- Emperor An of HanHan dynasty Emperor from 106 to 12594–125
- You KikkawaJapanese idol, singer and actressborn 1992
- Xu Youhermit
- Liu YouChinese prince250 BC–180 BC
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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