Chầu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a soiree; party (especially with entertainers or attendants)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chầu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 20K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 41K
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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chau in VN Vietnam, US United States, NL Netherlands 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)a soiree; party (especially with entertainers or attendants)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chầu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #33 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Chau | 184 |
| US United States | — | 16,667 | 1 in 20K | 18K | Chau | 166 |
| IN India | — | 536 | 1 in 2.5M | 536 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 277 | 1 in 62K | 277 | Chau | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 245 | 1 in 42K | 245 | Chau | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 205 | 1 in 41K | 205 | — | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 120 | 1 in 46K | 120 | — | 8 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Chầu mean, and where does it come from?
- a soiree; party (especially with entertainers or attendants) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Chầu a male or female name?
- Chầu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chầu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Chầu in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chau.
- How common is the name Chầu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,667 people named Chầu in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Chầu compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Chầu is the 33rd most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chầu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%E1%BA%A7uThe 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, “Chầu” — the 33rd most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.