Chau Family History
Chau Name Meaning
Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 鄒 see Zou . Chinese: alternative Mandarin form of the surnames 巢 and 晁 see Chao 1 and Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 周 see Zhou Chinese: alternative Mandarin form of the surnames 趙 and 招 see Zhao 1 and Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 秋 see Qiu 5. Chinese: alternative Cantonese form of the surname 仇 see Qiu 7: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 曹 possibly based on its Hakka pronunciation see Cao 8: Vietnamese (Châu): from the Chinese surname 周 see Zhou
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022