Tieu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tiˈu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tieu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Tiêu, from Chinese 蕭／萧 (xiāo).
- USUnited States1 in 146K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 119K
- SESweden1 in 140K
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
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
2,275 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- VietnameseTiêu(measured from records)
- Chinese蕭／萧xiāo(measured from records)
Borrowed from Vietnamese Tiêu, from Chinese 蕭／萧 (xiāo).
Sources 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tieu 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 | 2,275 | 1 in 146K | 2.6K | Tieu | 220 |
| SE Sweden | 73 | 1 in 140K | 73 | — | 8 |
| NO Norway | 46 | 1 in 119K | 46 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 26 | 1 in 214K | 28 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 19 | 1 in 909K | 19 | Tieu | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
2,275 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Tieu is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In wuu, Fling
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Throw
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Cast
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, Hurl
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In wuu, TOSS
as a wordAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
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)
- Chenva Tieub. 1963FRFrench politician
- Lam Trườngb. 1974VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese singer
- Sung Tieub. 1987DEVietnamese-German artist
- Tiêu Châu Như Quỳnhb. 1992VNVietnamese singer
- Lyn TieuUSresearcher
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,466 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,146 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 73 | #9,336 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 46 | #27,609 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #40,014 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 19 | #50,334 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 12 | #34,719 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Tieu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Tiêu, from Chinese 蕭／萧 (xiāo). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Tieu?
- A machine transcription gives /tiˈu/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tieu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Tieu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tieu.
- Where is Tieu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tieu is densest in Norway — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tieu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,275 people named Tieu in 2010, about 1 in 146 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/tieuThe 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, “Tieu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.