Fu

At the 2020 census, 12,092 Americans bore the surname Fu — 2,903rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,092
Rank: 2,903rd
How common: 1 in 24,700
Per 100,000: 4.1

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 Fu described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.8%
White, not Hispanic 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Fu

Du Fu (712–770)Tang dynasty Chinese poet
Yan Fu (1854–1921)Chinese translator
Mi Fu (1051–1107)Chinese artist
Marco Fu (born 1978)professional snooker player from Hong Kong
Fu Haifeng (born 1984)Chinese badminton player
Fu Yuanhui (born 1996)Chinese swimmer
Xu Fu (born 254 BC)Chinese alchemist and explorer in the Qin Dynasty
Fu Mingxia (born 1978)Chinese diver

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

Surnames like Fu

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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.