Tiêu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: clipping of tiêu hoá (“to digest”) (to separate food in the alimentary canal)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

/tiw˧˧/(recorded in a dictionary) Vietnamese · from Wiktionary

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Tiêu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • NONorway1 in 119K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 140K
  • USUnited States1 in 146K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,275 people, 2010

Record sources
88 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

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 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)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Tiêu is found

(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.

Where Tiêu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,2751 in 146K2.6KTieu88
SE Sweden731 in 140K73Tieu3
NO Norway461 in 119K46—5
FI Finland261 in 214K28—2
NL Netherlands191 in 909K19Tieu4
DK Denmark121 in 489K12——

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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Tiêu is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tieu, Tiểu, Tiếu, Tiều, Tiễu

  • Korean surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea

    Also written Tieu, Tiểu

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tieu, Tiểu, Tiễu, Tiều, Tiếu

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Tieu, Tiểu, Tȋểu, Tiếu

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Chile, El Salvador, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tieu, Tiểu, Tiếu, Tiều, Tiễu

  • Russian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Canada

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Тиеу, Tieu, Tiểu, Tiều, Tỉểu

17 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)

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)
196019701980Anna Sui, b. 1964Edwin Siu, b. 1977Elva Hsiao, b. 1979
  • Anna Suib. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican fashion designer (born 1964)
  • Edwin Siub. 1977CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
  • Elva Hsiaob. 1979TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese singer (born 1979)

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tiêu 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 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?
In Vietnamese /tiw˧˧/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Tiêu?
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. After it come Sweden, Norway, Finland and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
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.

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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, “Tiêu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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