Tou (surname)
Tou is a surname in various cultures.
| Language(s) | Chinese, others |
|---|---|
| Other names | |
| Variant form(s) | |
Origins
Tou may be:
- An English surname, recorded in the Domesday Book as the name of a landholder[1]
- The Cantonese Jyutping romanisation of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Táo (陶)
- The Wade-Giles romanisation of various Chinese surnames spelled in Pinyin as Dou (斗, 竇; IPA: /toʊ̯/)[2]
- An alternative spelling of the Chinese surname spelled in Pinyin as Tuǒ (庹)
- A Cambodian surname (ទូ; IPA: /tuː/), spelled in both Geographic Department romanisation and UNGEGN romanisation as Tu
Statistics
As of 2017, 2 people in Denmark and 48 people in Norway bore the surname Tou.[3][4]
The 2010 United States Census found 312 people with the surname Tou, making it the 63,873rd-most-common name in the country, up from 251 (72,237th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly more than three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and between 10% and 15% as White.[5]
People
People with the surname Tou include:
- Tou Samouth (ទូ សាមុត; c. 1915–1962), Cambodian communist politician
- Holger Tou (1919–1947), Norwegian police official and collaborator with Nazi Germany
- Tou Chung-hua (Chinese: 庹宗華; pinyin: Tuǒ Zōnghuá; born 1962), Taiwanese actor
- Drissa Tou (born 1973), Burkinabe boxer
References
- Barber, Henry (1894). British family names; their origin and meaning, with lists of Scandinavian, Frisian, Anglo-Saxon and Norman names. London: E. Stock – via Internet Archive.
- Chao, Sheau-yueh J. (2000). Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 156. ISBN 9780806349466.
- "Names". Statistics Norway. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- "How many Danes have the name ..." Statistics Denmark. 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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