Chô
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chô is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Korean 조(趙) (Jo) and 조(曺) (Jo).
- VNVietnam≈1 in 87K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 9.9K
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
33,490 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)Locally spelled Cho in US United States, VN Vietnam.
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)From Korean 조(趙) (Jo) and 조(曺) (Jo).
Cited for this meaning 2
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chô 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 | — | 33,490 | 1 in 9.9K | 36K | Cho | 53 |
| VN Vietnam | #107 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Cho | 72 |
| AR Argentina | — | 459 | 1 in 99K | 459 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 439 | 1 in 482K | 439 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 330 | 1 in 116K | 193 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 132 | 1 in 42K | 132 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 74 | 1 in 74K | 74 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 3 | 1 in 34K | 3 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
33,490 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cao Caob. 155CNnot in their usual nameChinese warlord and statesman (155–220)
- Cao Renb. 168CNnot in their usual nameChinese Han dynasty general (168–223)
- Cao Pib. 187CNnot in their usual nameCao Wei Emperror (187-226)
- Cao Songb. 200CNnot in their usual nameEastern Han dynasty official (died 193)
- Yan Huib. 521not in their usual nameChinese philosopher (c. 521–481 BC)
- Cao Xueqinb. 1724CNnot in their usual nameChinese novelist and poet (1710–1765)
- Cao Kunb. 1862CNnot in their usual nameChinese general and warlord (1862–1938)
- Raymond Chob. 1964GBHong Kong actor
- Cao Lub. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese singer
- Cao Yuanb. 1995CNnot in their usual nameOlympic diver from China (1995-)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chô mean, and where does it come from?
- From Korean 조(趙) (Jo) and 조(曺) (Jo). Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary.
- Is Chô a male or female name?
- Chô is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Chô have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Chô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cho.
- Where is Chô most common?
- Chô is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chô?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,490 people named Chô in 2010, about 1 in 9.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Chô compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Chô is the 107th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
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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%B4The 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, “Chô” — the 107th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.