Chữ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chữ is a given name 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. Recorded meaning: From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia).
- 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 Chữ 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)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
28,508 people, 2010
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)
From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia).
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chữ 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: 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chữ 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 mtq, alphabet, writing system, script
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chữ mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia). Recorded by Wiktionary and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Is Chữ a male or female name?
- Chữ 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 Chữ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Chữ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chu.
- Where is Chữ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chữ 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 Chữ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 28,508 people named Chữ in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Chữ compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Chữ is the 46th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chữ?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%E1%BB%AFThe 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, “Chữ” — the 46th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.