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tu Name Meaning and History

  1. Chinese : from the name of the Tu river, a tributary of the Yangtze.
  2. Chinese : from one of the characters in the name of the ancient city of Zoutu. The legendary emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 bc) used this city as a military base. Both characters of the city name, Zou (see Zou) and Tu, were adopted as surnames.
  3. Chinese: variant of Du.
  4. Vietnamese: unexplained.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The tu name in History

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Distribution of tu Families in the US in 1920
Number of tu families
 3-3
 2-2		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Message from Board Admin. Please read before posting shadeebh 0
Eddie and Kate Tu in or near Concord MA during the years 1880 - 1900 KOstrander0417 0
elizabeth tu (married abram helms) barbour co.AL ms.jerome key 0
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