Tou (surname)
Tou is a surname in various cultures.
Origins
Tou may be:- An English surname, recorded in the Domesday Book as the name of a landholder
- The Cantonese Jyutping romanisation of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Táo
- The Wade–Giles romanisation of various Chinese surnames spelled in Pinyin as Dou
- An alternative spelling of the Chinese surname spelled in Pinyin as Tuǒ
- A Cambodian surname, 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.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 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.
People
People with the surname Tou include:- Tou Samouth, Cambodian communist politician
- Holger Tou, Norwegian police official and collaborator with Nazi Germany
- Tou Chung-hua, Taiwanese actor
- Drissa Tou, Burkinabe boxer