Lim

At the 2020 census, 40,278 Americans bore the surname Lim — 839th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,421.

By the numbers

People: 40,278
Rank: 839th
How common: 1 in 7,421
Per 100,000: 13.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Korean

From including ^임, 林 or 任; ^림, 林.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 90.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
White, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Lim

Lim Si-hyeon (born 2003)South Korean archer
Alizé Lim (born 1990)French tennis player
Alfredo Lim (1929–2020)Filipino politician
Peter Lim (born 1953)Singapore businessman
Freddy Lim (born 1976)Taiwanese singer, actor and politician
Poon Lim (1918–1991)Chinese sailor of the British Merchant Navy
Shin Lim (born 1991)Canadian-American magician

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

Surnames like Lim

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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.