Ho

55,533 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ho in the 2020 census, making it the 591st most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,382.

By the numbers

People: 55,533
Rank: 591st
How common: 1 in 5,382
Per 100,000: 18.6

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Chinese (Mandarin: Hé, Cantonese: ho<sup>4</sup>, Hakka: Hò, Min Nan: Hô), or from Vietnamese Hồ.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Ho

Stanley Ho (1921–2020)Macau gambling magnate
Denise Ho (born 1977)Canada - Hong Kong singer and social activist
David Ho (born 1952)Taiwanese-American physician and scientist
Feng-Shan Ho (1901–1997)Chinese diplomat whose actions during the Second World War earned him the title "Righteous among the Nations"
Edmund Ho (born 1955)Chinese politician
Peter Ho (born 1975)Chinese-American actor
Josie Ho (born 1974)Hong Kong singer
Don Ho (1930–2007)American singer, songwiter and actor

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

Surnames like Ho

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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.