Hou

At the 2020 census, 6,572 Americans bore the surname Hou — 5,144th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 45,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,572
Rank: 5,144th
How common: 1 in 45,500
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

Borrowed from Chinese 侯.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.9%
White, not Hispanic 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Hou

Hou Yifan (born 1994)Chinese chess player
Hou Hsiao-Hsien (born 1947)Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and film producer
Hou Zhihui (born 1997)Chinese weightlifter
Hou Yu-ih (born 1957)Taiwanese politician
Hou Yuzhuo (born 1987)Chinese taekwondo practitioner
Hou Bo (1924–2017)photographer
Hou Minghao (born 1997)Chinese actor and singer
Hou Jing (503–552)Chinese emperor during the Liang dynasty

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

Surnames like Hou

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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.