Ju

At the 2020 census, 2,849 Americans bore the surname Ju — 10,709th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 105,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,849
Rank: 10,709th
How common: 1 in 105,000
Per 100,000: 0.95

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From various romanizations of various Chinese characters. As a prefecture, from Chinese 矩州 (“Carpenter's-Square Prefecture”).

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.3%

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

Notable people called Ju

Ju Wenjun (born 1991)Chinese chess player
Huang Ju (1938–2007)Chinese politician
Ju Ji-hoon (born 1982)South Korean actor
Ju Se-jong (born 1990)South Korean association football player
Ju Jingyi (born 1994)Chinese singer and actress
Li Ju (born 1976)table tennis player
Ju Da-yeong (born 1995)South Korean actress
Ju Shou (died 200)Chinese adviser serving warlord Yuan Shao

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

Surnames like Ju

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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.