Chìu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chìu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 周 (Chiû), via English Chiu. Doublet of Chow.
- USUnited States1 in 25K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 67K
- NLNetherlands1 in 68K
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)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
13,174 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chiu in US United States, NL Netherlands, HK Hong Kong.
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)- Hokkien周Chiû(measured from records)
- EnglishChiu(measured from records)
From Hokkien 周 (Chiû), via English Chiu. Doublet of Chow.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chìu 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 | — | 13,174 | 1 in 25K | 14K | Chiu | 48 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 256 | 1 in 68K | 256 | Chiu | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 200 | 1 in 1.1M | 200 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 114 | 1 in 439K | 114 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 101 | 1 in 450K | 101 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 82 | 1 in 67K | 82 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 80 | 1 in 105K | 80 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 56 | 1 in 99K | 56 | — | 1 |
| HK Hong Kong | #686 | — | — | — | Chiu | 24 |
13,174 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Chìu 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 kix, plate (a slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chìu mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hokkien 周 (Chiû), via English Chiu. Doublet of Chow. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- Is Chìu a male or female name?
- Chìu is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chìu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Chìu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chiu.
- Where is Chìu most common?
- Chìu is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 25 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chìu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,174 people named Chìu in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Chìu compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Chìu is the 686th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chìu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%ACuThe 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, “Chìu” — the 686th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.