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 (; IPA: ) An alternative spelling of the Chinese surname spelled in Pinyin as Tuǒ () A Cambodian surname (; IPA: ), 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 (72,237th-most-common) 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 (; –1962), Cambodian communist politician Holger Tou (1919–1947), Norwegian police official and collaborator with Nazi Germany Tou Chung-hua (; born 1962), Taiwanese actor Drissa Tou (born 1973), Burkinabe boxer
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