girls:
389 births since 1975
#5327 (7th percentile)
boys:
107 births since 1976
#4479 (2nd percentile)
overall:
496 births since 1975
#7243 (6th percentile)
The name Chau is the #7,243 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 496 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 6.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,327 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 389 births since 1975. For boys, it ranks #4,479 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 107 births since 1976.
Chau first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Chau is available in 40 out of the 48 years between 1975 and 2022 (39 years for girls and 13 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Chau has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Chau were girls.
For girls, Chau reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #768) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Chau reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #680) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chau".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Chau. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Chau is pronounced as chow, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shoh, at 27.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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