Chau
Girl · CHOW · Vietnamese
Chau is a girls' name of Vietnamese origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Chau mean?
Vietnamese: Vietnamese Chau; also a Cantonese spelling of the Chinese surname Zhou
Vietnamese name and surname; it is also a Cantonese spelling of the Chinese surname Zhou.
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Is Chau a girl's or a boy's name?
Chau is a girls' name.
How popular is Chau in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1980, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975.
Half of all the girls named Chau in the US since 1880 were born between 1984 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.
Chau in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,387 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,509 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,798 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,580 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,544 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,525 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,272 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,471 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,754 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,729 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,317 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,147 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,024 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,609 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,059 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,384 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,046 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
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