Wu
Just 22 people in Poland carry Wu, and not one newborn has been given it this century. A Chinese name meaning martial or military, said VOO. Most Poles have never met one.
Wu Pronunciation
Wu is pronounced VOO (/vu/).
What Wu means
Where Wu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wu comes from China, where the written character 武 holds the sense of military and martial. It joins two older signs, 止 and 戈, a stopping foot and a dagger-axe. A classical gloss, recorded in the Zuo Zhuan, reads the character as "to stop the spear." A word about war learned to speak about ending war.
The short meaning stays blunt: warrior, and the struggle. In Polish that becomes wojownik and walka.
On a Polish class register Wu sits apart. Two letters. It has taken no diminutive here, no cross-gender pair, none of the softening Polish hands to its older names. What holds is the martial sense behind the single syllable, wojownik and walka.
How many people are named Wu
1 in 1423079 men in Poland is named Wu. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9487 among male names.