Chiu

Chiu is the 2,580th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,686 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,800.

By the numbers

People: 13,686
Rank: 2,580th
How common: 1 in 21,800
Per 100,000: 4.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Cantonese

From several different Chinese surnames, including:.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chiu described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 90.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
White, not Hispanic 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.1%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Chiu

Kim Chiu (born 1990)Filipino actress

People named Chiu with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chiu

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.