Zhōu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hanyu Pinyin reading of 侏
Zhōu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 14K
- ARArgentina1 in 67K
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
- 236 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
23,437 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Zhou in US United States, CN China, ES Spain 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)
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 侏
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhōu 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.
23,437 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lu Xunb. 1881CNnot in their usual nameChinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)
- Zhou Enlaib. 1898CN1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Han Suyinb. 1917CNnot in their usual namephysician and author (1917–2012)
- Tsai Chinb. 1936CNnot in their usual nameChinese-born British actress
- Michael Chowb. 1939CNnot in their usual nameChinese-born American actor, interior designer and restaurateur
- Chow Yun-fatb. 1955CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
- Jay Choub. 1979TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese pop singer, songwriter, and actor
- Agnes Chowb. 1996CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong political activist
- Zhou Guanyub. 1999CNChinese racing driver
- Chou Tzuyub. 1999TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer (born 1999)
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zhōu mean, and where does it come from?
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 侏 Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zhōu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Zhōu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhou.
- Where is Zhōu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zhōu is densest in Spain — about 1 in 6.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zhōu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,437 people named Zhōu in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhōu compared with other names?
- In China, Zhōu is the 847th most common surname of 142,871 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zh%C5%8DuThe 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, “Zhōu” — the 847th most common surname in China. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.