Zhou

Zhou is the 871st most common surname in the United States, shared by 39,160 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 7,633.

By the numbers

People: 39,160
Rank: 871st
How common: 1 in 7,633
Per 100,000: 13.1

Where the name comes from

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn 周.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.3%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Zhou

Zhou Enlai (1898–1976)1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
Zhuang Zhou (368 BC–287 BC)Chinese Taoist philosopher (c. 369–286 BC)
Zhou Guanyu (born 1999)Chinese racing driver
Zhou Youguang (1906–2017)Chinese linguist, sinologist
King Wu of Zhou (1150 BC–1042 BC)founder of China's Zhou dynasty
Zhou Xuan (1918–1957)Chinese actress and singer
King Wen of Zhou (1111 BC–1049 BC)King of Zhou
Zhou Xun (born 1974)Chinese actress and singer

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

Surnames like Zhou

Zhong

Try it on yourself

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.