Khâu

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to sew

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Khâu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.2M

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)

254 people, 2010

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

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 Khau in US United States, IN India.

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)

to sew

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Khâu 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 Khâu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2541 in 1.3M337Khau19
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9——
DK Denmark51 in 1.2M5——
IN India———Khau2

254 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Khâu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Khau, Khẩu

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Khau, Khẩu, Kháu

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States

    Also written Khau, Kháu

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Khâu 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 Vietnamese, Tên chánh của Khổng Tử; chữ Hán chỉ “gò/đống đất”, gắn với địa danh Ni Khâu.

    as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam

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)

190019502000Koo In-hwoi, b. 1907Koo Bon-moo, b. 1945Herman Yau, b. 1961Chingmy Yau, b. 1968Roy Chiu, b. 1981Koo Kyo-hwan, b. 1982Koo Hye-sun, b. 1984Koo Ja-cheol, b. 1989Goo Hara, b. 1991Ku Bon-chan, b. 1993
  • Koo In-hwoib. 1907KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean businessman; co-founder of LG Group (1907–1969)
  • Koo Bon-moob. 1945KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean business executive
  • Herman Yaub. 1961CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong filmmaker and cinematographer
  • Chingmy Yaub. 1968CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
  • Roy Chiub. 1981TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor and singer
  • Koo Kyo-hwanb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and actor
  • Koo Hye-sunb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, director and singer
  • Koo Ja-cheolb. 1989KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
  • Goo Harab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pop singer (1991–2019)
  • Ku Bon-chanb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean archer

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 Khâu under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Khâu mean, and where does it come from?
to sew Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Khâu a male or female name?
Khâu 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 Khâu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 254 people named Khâu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khau.
Where is Khâu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Khâu is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Khâu?
In the United States, the national register counted 254 people named Khâu in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Khâu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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