Chou

At the 2020 census, 10,502 Americans bore the surname Chou — 3,347th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 28,500.

By the numbers

People: 10,502
Rank: 3,347th
How common: 1 in 28,500
Per 100,000: 3.5

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

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

Notable people called Chou

Jay Chou (born 1979)Taiwanese pop singer, songwriter, and actor
Vic Chou (born 1981)Taiwanese actor and singer
Chou Tien-Chen (born 1990)Taiwanese badminton player
Collin Chou (born 1967)Taiwanese actor
Davy Chou (born 1983)Cambodian-French artist
Wen Chou (101–200)General serving warlord Yuan Shao
Fan Chou (101–195)Chinese politician and general

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

Surnames like Chou

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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.