Lao

At the 2020 census, 6,668 Americans bore the surname Lao — 5,096th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 44,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,668
Rank: 5,096th
How common: 1 in 44,800
Per 100,000: 2.2

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 85.6%
Hispanic or Latino 8.9%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Lao

Lao Lishi (born 1987)diver

People named Lao 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.