Khóo

given name · Latin script

Khóo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 89th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Min Nan 邱 (Khu), mostly found in Malaysia.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 456K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 391K
  • SESweden1 in 680K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

729 people, 2010

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 391K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Khoo in US United States, SG Singapore, NL Netherlands.

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)

Borrowed from Min Nan 邱 (Khu), mostly found in Malaysia.

Sources 2

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Khóo 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.

Where Khóo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7291 in 456K889Khoo257
NL Netherlands—161 in 1.1M16Khoo13
SE Sweden—151 in 680K15—12
NO Norway—141 in 391K14—5
PL Poland—101 in 3.8M7—1
DK Denmark—61 in 978K6——
SG Singapore#89———Khoo152

729 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

1940196019802000Michael Hui, b. 1942Ricky Hui, b. 1946Ann Hui, b. 1947Samuel Hui, b. 1948Hui Ka Yan, b. 1958Xu Qin, b. 1961Raman Hui, b. 1963Andy Hui, b. 1967Xu Yuhua, b. 1976Tiffany Hsu, b. 1984
  • Michael Huib. 1942CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong comedian, screenwriter, film director and actor
  • Ricky Huib. 1946CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer (1946-2011)
  • Ann Huib. 1947CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter, and actress (born 1947)
  • Samuel Huib. 1948CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong musician and actor (born 1948)
  • Hui Ka Yanb. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese entrepreneur (1958-)
  • Xu Qinb. 1961CNnot in their usual nameSecretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Raman Huib. 1963CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong film director
  • Andy Huib. 1967CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer and actor
  • Xu Yuhuab. 1976CNnot in their usual nameChinese chess player
  • Tiffany Hsub. 1984TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actress and model

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Khóo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Khóo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Min Nan 邱 (Khu), mostly found in Malaysia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
Is Khóo a male or female name?
Khóo 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.
In which country does Khóo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 729 people named Khóo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khoo.
Where is Khóo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khóo is densest in Norway — about 1 in 391 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Khóo?
In the United States, the national register counted 729 people named Khóo in 2010, about 1 in 456 thousand residents.
How common is Khóo compared with other names?
In Singapore, Khóo is the 89th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Khóo” — the 89th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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