Чу
surname · Cyrillic script
Meaning: listen!; be quiet! (interjection used to draw someone's attention to a sound or make someone listen to something)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Чу is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 581K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 8Kas Chu
- USUnited States1 in 12Kas Chu
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Чу itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 581K (inferred from the name graph)
28,508 named Chu, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chu in US United States.
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)
listen!; be quiet! (interjection used to draw someone's attention to a sound or make someone listen to something)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Чу 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 | 28,508as Chu | 1 in 12K | 30K | Chu | 37 |
| ES Spain | 343as Chu | 1 in 146K | 343 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 302as Chu | 1 in 34K | 302 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 271as Chu | 1 in 64K | 271 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 242as Chu | 1 in 158K | 150 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 201as Chu | 1 in 28K | 201 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 156as Chu | 1 in 35K | 156 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 94as Chu | 1 in 8K | 94 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Чу | 7 |
28,508 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Чу is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Bulgarian, second-person singular aorist indicative of чу́я (čúja)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Macedonian, second/third-person singular aorist of чуе (čue)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gld, vinegar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In av, horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In atv, what
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ju Jeung-ryub. 1926KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress (1926-1980)
- Joo Hyunb. 1941KRnot in their usual nameactor
- Frances Yaob. 1950USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American computer scientist
- Joo Jin-mob. 1958KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (born 1958)
- Joo Jin-mob. 1974KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor born 1974
- Toby Chub. 1977USAmerican composer (1977-)
- Joo Sang-wookb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Jon M. Chub. 1979USAmerican filmmaker
- Ju Ji-hoonb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Joo Woo-jaeb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model, Actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Чу mean, and where does it come from?
- listen!; be quiet! (interjection used to draw someone's attention to a sound or make someone listen to something) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Чу have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Chu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Чу?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,508 people named Chu in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D1%87%D1%83The 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, “Чу”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.