Tiêu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: clipping of tiêu hoá (“to digest”) (to separate food in the alimentary canal)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tiəw˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tiêu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- 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
- 88 (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
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tieu in US United States, SE Sweden, NL Netherlands.
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)
clipping of tiêu hoá (“to digest”) (to separate food in the alimentary canal)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiêu 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 | 88 |
| SE Sweden | 73 | 1 in 140K | 73 | Tieu | 3 |
| NO Norway | 46 | 1 in 119K | 46 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | 26 | 1 in 214K | 28 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 19 | 1 in 909K | 19 | Tieu | 4 |
| 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)
Tiêu 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, Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Quảng Oai công, Gia Long’s 10th son.
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)
- 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 5 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Tiêu mean, and where does it come from?
- clipping of tiêu hoá (“to digest”) (to separate food in the alimentary canal) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tiêu?
- A machine transcription gives /tiəw˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does Tiêu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Tiêu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tieu.
- Where is Tiêu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tiêu 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 Tiêu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,275 people named Tiêu in 2010, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tiêu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ti%C3%AAuThe 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, “Tiêu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.