Hu

29,734 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hu in the 2020 census, making it the 1,164th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,100.

By the numbers

People: 29,734
Rank: 1,164th
How common: 1 in 10,100
Per 100,000: 10.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From Chinese 胡. For less common variants, see Hu.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 94.8%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Hu

Hu Jintao (born 1942)former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Hu Yaobang (1915–1989)Chinese politician (1915-1989), former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Kelly Hu (born 1968)American actress
Hu Shih (1891–1962)Chinese scholar, writer and philosopher
Hu Jia (born 1973)Chinese activist
Hu Han-min (1879–1936)Chinese politician
Hu Chunhua (born 1963)Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
King Hu (1932–1997)Chinese film director and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Hu

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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.