Khoury

At the 2020 census, 6,003 Americans bore the surname Khoury — 5,591st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,003
Rank: 5,591st
How common: 1 in 49,800
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Variant of Khouri.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.7%
Hispanic or Latino 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Khoury

Bechara El Khoury (1890–1964)First President of Lebanon
Elias Khoury (1948–2024)Contemporary Lebanese novelist, critic publisher
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (1936–2026)Lebanese writer and poet
Faris al-Khoury (1877–1962)Syrian politician
Clara Khoury (born 1976)American actress of Palestinian descent
Raymond Khoury (born 1960)Lebanon-born investment banker, screenwriter, illustrator and author (1960-), mostly in US from 1975 and in the UK

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

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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.