Siaw
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/siɔ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Siaw is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 864K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- ESSpain1 in 1.8M
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
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 864K (inferred from the name graph)
106 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Siaw 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 106 | 1 in 3.1M | 242 | Siaw | 17 |
| ES Spain | 28 | 1 in 1.8M | 28 | Siaw | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 20 | 1 in 864K | 20 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
106 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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Siaw is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mdh, nine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, cheeky; mischievous; troublesome; badly behaved
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Xiao Zhangmaob. 458not in their usual nameLiu Song Dynasty crown prince
- Liang Wudib. 464CNnot in their usual nameFounding Liang emperor from 502 to 549
- Yum-Tong Siub. 1943USnot in their usual nameChinese mathematician
- Anna Suib. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican fashion designer (born 1964)
- Hsiao Bi-khimb. 1971TWnot in their usual nameVice President of Taiwan since 2024
- Edwin Siub. 1977CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
- Elva Hsiaob. 1979TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer (born 1979)
- Jona Xiaob. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
- Xiao Jiaruixuanb. 2002CNnot in their usual nameChinese sport shooter
- Rita HsiaoUSnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 242 | #83,650 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 106 | #153,769 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 102 | #148,244 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #67,362 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 20 | #49,540 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #110,717 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #58,207 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #66,574 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Siaw?
- A machine transcription gives /siɔ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Siaw have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 106 people named Siaw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siaw.
- Where is Siaw most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Siaw is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 864 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Siaw?
- In the United States, the national register counted 106 people named Siaw in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Siaw?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/siawThe 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, “Siaw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.