Lo

19,169 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lo in the 2020 census, making it the 1,836th most common in the country. That is about one person in 15,600.

By the numbers

People: 19,169
Rank: 1,836th
How common: 1 in 15,600
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From cmn ^洛 cmn-wadegiles romanization: Lo⁴.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 87.5%
White, not Hispanic 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Lo

Tove Lo (born 1987)Swedish singer
Ismaël Lô (born 1956)Senegalese musician
Maodo Lô (born 1992)German basketball player
Show Lo (born 1979)Taiwanese singer, actor and dancer
Justin Lo (born 1976)American singer-songwriter
Ken Lo (born 1959)Hong Kong martial artist

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

Surnames like Lo

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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.