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尤 You — a rarer surname
78.0 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | You |
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| Strokes | 4 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'especially', from the ancient state of You.
What the character means
Outstanding and unique
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China43
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write100
4 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- You Mao — Southern Song poet and bibliophile (1127–1194), one of the 'Four Great Poets'.
- You Tong — Qing dynasty dramatist and poet, celebrated for zaju plays and literary works.
- You Lie — Late Qing revolutionary, early ally of Sun Yat-sen and one of the 'Four Desperadoes'.
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