Louie

Louie is the 4,177th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,210 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 36,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,210
Rank: 4,177th
How common: 1 in 36,400
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 75.6%
White, not Hispanic 8.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 7.8%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%

Surnames like Louie

Also a first name

Louie has been given to 33,338 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. 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.