Chow

17,205 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chow in the 2020 census, making it the 2,052nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 17,400.

By the numbers

People: 17,205
Rank: 2,052nd
How common: 1 in 17,400
Per 100,000: 5.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Cantonese

From yue 周.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 85.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
White, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Chow

Chow Yun-fat (born 1955)Hong Kong actor
Stephen Chow (born 1962)Hong Kong actor, comedian and filmmaker
Agnes Chow (born 1996)Hong Kong political activist
Raymond Chow (1927–2018)Hong Kong film producer
Stephen Chow (born 1959)Hong Kong Roman Catholic Bishop
Amy Chow (born 1978)gymnast
Niki Chow (born 1979)Hong Kong actress
Kathy Chow (1966–2023)Hong Kong actress

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

Surnames like Chow

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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.