Seow
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Seow is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Malaysia.
- SGSingapore
- MYMalaysia
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Seow 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 ang, first/third-person singular preterite indicative of sāwan
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.
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #46,600 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #47,028 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #42,165 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #589 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- In which country does Seow have the most bearers?
- Seow is most frequently recorded in Malaysia.
What do you want to know about Seow?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seowThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Seow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.