Chõü
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chõü is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 9,834 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From French chou (“cabbage”); compare French pâte à choux (“choux pastry”). Doublet of caulis, cole, and kale. Chõü is also written 초우 in Korean (Hangul).
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 3.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 12K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 15Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
9,834 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Chõü in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chou in US United States, CA Canada, MY Malaysia and 2 more, Çhoù in DZ Algeria and Chöu in CM Cameroon.
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)From French chou (“cabbage”); compare French pâte à choux (“choux pastry”). Doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chõü is found
(measured from records)Chõü 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 | — | 9,834 | 1 in 34K | 11K | Chou | 387 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Çhoù | 8 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Chöu | 10 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Chou | 47 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Chou | 160 |
| HK Hong Kong | #398 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Chou | 53 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Chou | 69 |
9,834 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. 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 Chõü mean, and where does it come from?
- From French chou (“cabbage”); compare French pâte à choux (“choux pastry”). Doublet of caulis, cole, and kale. Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 2 other sources.
- Is Chõü a male or female name?
- Chõü is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chõü?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Chõü, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chou. After it come Algeria, Cameroon, Malaysia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chõü?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,834 people named Chõü in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Chõü compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Chõü is the 398th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%B5%C3%BCThe 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, “Chõü” — ranked 3347th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.