Leow
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/əɫoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 34K
- NLNetherlands1 in 443K
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)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
286 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leow 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 | — | 286 | 1 in 1.2M | 353 | Leow | 177 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 39 | 1 in 443K | 39 | Leow | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 22 | 1 in 34K | 22 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | #167 | — | — | — | Leow | 129 |
286 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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Leow is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, leg (shank or thigh)
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)
- Willy Leowb. 1887DEGerman politician (1887-1937)
- Leow Kim Fattb. 1911SGbadminton player
- Lawrence Leowb. 1962SGbadminton executive and administrator
- Ivan Leowb. 1982MYMalaysian poker player
- Rebecca Leowscreenwriter
- Li-Ann Leowresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Leow?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Leow have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 286 people named Leow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leow.
- Where is Leow most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leow is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286 people named Leow in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Leow compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Leow is the 167th most common surname of 78,292 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leow?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leowThe 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, “Leow” — the 167th most common surname in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.