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Tou is a surname in various cultures.
Tou may be:
- An English surname, recorded in the Domesday Book as the name of a landholder[1]
- The Cantonese Jyutping romanisation of the Chinese surname spelled in Mandarin Pinyin as Táo (陶)
- The Wade-Giles romanisation of various Chinese surnames spelled in Pinyin as Dou (斗, 竇; IPA: /toʊ̯/)[2]
- An alternative spelling of the Chinese surname spelled in Pinyin as Tuǒ (庹)
- A Cambodian surname (ទូ; IPA: /tuː/), spelled in both Geographic Department romanisation and UNGEGN romanisation as Tu
As of 2017, 2 people in Denmark and 48 people in Norway bore the surname Tou.[3][4]
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.[5]
People with the surname Tou include:
- Tou Samouth (ទូ សាមុត; c. 1915–1962), Cambodian communist politician
- Holger Tou (1919–1947), Norwegian police official and collaborator with Nazi Germany
- Tou Chung-hua (Chinese: 庹宗華; pinyin: Tuǒ Zōnghuá; born 1962), Taiwanese actor
- Drissa Tou (born 1973), Burkinabe boxer
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