Given name & surname
Châu
“pearl”
Châu is a feminine given name from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.
Meaning & origin
Châu’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Châu
- Ngô Bảo ChâuVietnamese math professorborn 1972
- Phan Bội Châu19/20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary1867–1940
- Trần Ngọc ChâuVietnamese military leader and politician1923–2020
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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