Çhaw
loc · Latin script
Çhaw is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 95th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. locative name from Cheadle in Staffs or Cheshire.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 637K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 637K (inferred from the name graph)
277 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chaw in MM Myanmar (Burma), US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. locative name from Cheadle in Staffs or Cheshire.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Çhaw counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 277 | 1 in 1.2M | 324 | Chaw | 14 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #95 | — | — | listed | Chaw | 50 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | — | Chaw | 13 |
| SG Singapore | — | — | — | — | Chaw | 18 |
277 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Çhaw mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Staffs. locative name from Cheadle in Staffs or Cheshire. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Çhaw have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 277 people named Çhaw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chaw.
- Where is Çhaw most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Çhaw is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 637 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Çhaw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 277 people named Çhaw in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Çhaw compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Çhaw is the 95th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7hawThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Çhaw” — the 95th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.