Du

Du is the 3,097th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,331 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,400.

By the numbers

People: 11,331
Rank: 3,097th
How common: 1 in 26,400
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Du described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Du

Du Fu (712–770)Tang dynasty Chinese poet
Du Mu (803–852)Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician
Nguyễn Du (1766–1820)Vietnamese poet
Du Li (born 1982)sport shooter
Du Jing (born 1984)Chinese badminton player
Du Yuesheng (1888–1951)Chinese mob boss
Du Wei (born 1982)Chinese footballer
Du Yu (222–285)Chinese classicist, general and politician

People named Du with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Du

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.