Tsou (鄒)
A Taiwanese surname.
鄒 Tsou
- Zhuyin
- ㄗㄡ
- Pinyin
- zōu
- Wade-Giles
- Tsou
- Further spellings of 鄒
- Tzou, Zou
- Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô)
- Tsau
- Hakka (Sixian)
- zeu²⁴
- Rank in Taiwan
- 85th most common surname, roughly 0.14% of the population (2023 Ministry of the Interior figures)
What the character means
The name of an ancient state that lay in present-day Shandong.
Where the surname comes from
Tradition traces it to the state of Zhu (邾), which lay near present-day Zoucheng, Shandong, and was renamed Zou (鄒) in the Warring States period; once Chu destroyed it, its people took the state's name. Hall name (堂號): 范陽堂.
Saying it 我姓鄒 — wǒ xìng zōu (ㄨㄛˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄗㄡ), "my family name is 鄒"
Sources: rank and share, 內政部 全國姓名統計分析 (Ministry of the Interior, National Name Statistics), data as of 2023-06-30. Taiwanese Hokkien readings, 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi), 百家姓 appendix. Hakka, 教育部臺灣客語辭典 (MOE Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka), 百家姓表, Sixian (四縣腔).