Family name秋 鄒In given names 秋 追 推 抽 醜 楸 樞 鄒 錐 錘 墜 椎 湫 皺 芻 萩 諏 趨 酋 鎚 雛 騶 鰌 鰍Chu, also spelled Choo, is a Korean family name and an element in Korean given names.
The 2000 South Korean Census found 55,309 people with the family name Chu.
[1] A study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on year 2007 application data for South Korean passports found that 55.1% of applicants with this surname chose to spell it in Latin letters as "Chu" in their passports, while 43.1% spelled it as "Choo".
[2] This character was originally used to write the Chinese family name now pronounced Qῑu in Mandarin.
[1] People with the family name Chu or Choo include: There are 23 hanja with the reading "Chu", and a variant form of one of those, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:[4][5]