Chử
surname · Latin script
Meaning: misspelling of chữ (“letter, word”)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Chử is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 46th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 30K
- GYGuyana1 in 8K
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 Chử 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)
- Record sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
28,508 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chu in VN Vietnam, 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)misspelling of chữ (“letter, word”)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chử 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.
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: the vn-kaggle-surname register; 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); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Empress Chu Suanzib. 324Jin Dynasty empress
- Chu Yuzhib. 381Liu Song dynasty person CBDB = 30922
- Chu Suiliangb. 597CNChinese chancellor
- Chu Renhuob. 1635CNQing dynasty novelist (1635-?)
- Chu Minyib. 1884CNChinese politician
- Chu Shijianb. 1928CNChinese entrepreneur
- Frances Yaob. 1950USnot in their usual nameChinese-born American computer scientist
- Chu Yiminb. 1953CNChinese military personnel
- Kriesha Chub. 1998PHFilipino singer
- Galen T. Chuanimator, writer and film director
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese surnames (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chử mean, and where does it come from?
- misspelling of chữ (“letter, word”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Chử have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Chử, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chu.
- Where is Chử most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chử is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 8.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chử?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,508 people named Chử in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Chử compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Chử is the 46th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chử?
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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%BB%ADThe 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, “Chử” — the 46th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.