Lou

3,619 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lou in the 2020 census, making it the 8,700th most common in the country. That is about one person in 82,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,619
Rank: 8,700th
How common: 1 in 82,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 79.6%
White, not Hispanic 10.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Lou

Lou Ye (born 1965)Chinese film director
Camille Lou (born 1992)French musician and singer
Lou Yun (born 1964)Chinese gymnast
Lou (born 1963)German singer
Lou Jiahui (born 1991)Chinese footballer

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

Surnames like Lou

Also a first name

Lou has been given to 38,198 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1954. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.