Given name & surname

Mou

Mou is a surname from Chinese.

Original Chinese牟

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Mou comes from Chinese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Chinese 牟 (móu).

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Mou’s family of names

In Greek usage, Mou as a surname is a transliteration of Μου. In English usage, Mou as a surname was borrowed from the Chinese form 牟.

Walk Mou’s family in the name graph

MouΜου牟

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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