Chiú
surname · Latin script
Chiú is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 周 (Chiû), via English Chiu. Doublet of Chow.
- THThailand≈1 in 7.9Kas ฉวี(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 137Kas Xu
- DKDenmark1 in 189Kas Xu
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 Chiú 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,700 named ฉวี, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as ฉวี
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Xu in US United States and ฉวี in TH Thailand.
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)
- Hokkien周Chiû(measured from records)
- EnglishChiu(measured from records)
From Hokkien 周 (Chiû), via English Chiu. Doublet of Chow.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chiú 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | #93,705 | ฉวี | 75 |
| US United States | 2,433as Xu | 1 in 137K | 44K | Xu | 47 |
| ES Spain | 173as Xu | 1 in 289K | 9.5K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 121as Xu | 1 in 1.7M | 254 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 52as Xu | 1 in 736K | 502 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 31as Xu | 1 in 189K | 367 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 12as Xu | 1 in 464K | 895 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 Chiú mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hokkien 周 (Chiû), via English Chiu. Doublet of Chow. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- In which country does Chiú have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.7 thousand people named ฉวี in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chiú?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,433 people named Xu in 2020, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chi%C3%BAThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Chiú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.