Qiu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Qiu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nonstandard spelling of qiū.
- USUnited States1 in 75K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 17K
- FIFinland1 in 34K
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
- 288 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
4,424 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nonstandard spelling of qiū
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qiu 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.
4,424 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Qiu is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Otoño
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In och, wine-master; old wine
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In och, To seek for, ask for
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In och, village, district
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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)
- Qiu Chujib. 1148CNfounder of the Longmen school of Quanzhen Taoism
- Qiu Yingb. 1494CNChinese painter (1494–1552)
- Qiu Jinb. 1875CNChinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer (1875-1907)
- Shing-Tung Yaub. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican mathematician from Hong Kong
- Qiu Xiaolongb. 1953CNChinese-American writer
- 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
- Qiu Lib. 1981SGChinese footballer
- Qiu Bob. 1993CNChinese diver
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)
Attested in 45 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.2K | #4,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,520 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3K | #1,709 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3K | #1,709 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,236 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 383 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 168 | #42,332 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 165 | #8,651 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #19,493 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 47 | #8,005 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 22 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Qiu mean, and where does it come from?
- nonstandard spelling of qiū Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Qiu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Qiu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled qiu.
- Where is Qiu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Qiu is densest in Spain — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Qiu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,424 people named Qiu in 2010, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
- How common is Qiu compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Qiu is the 737th most common surname of 8,142 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/qiuThe 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, “Qiu” — the 737th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.