Lu

46,937 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lu in the 2020 census, making it the 717th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,368.

By the numbers

People: 46,937
Rank: 717th
How common: 1 in 6,368
Per 100,000: 15.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From cmn surname pronunciations.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.1%
White, not Hispanic 2.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Lu

Lu You (1125–1210)Chinese historian and poet
Lü Buwei (290 BC–234 BC)Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291–235 BC)
Lü Bu (born 160)Chinese warlord and general
Lu Han (born 1990)Chinese singer and actor
Empress Lü Zhi (died 179 BC)Empress Regent of the Han dynasty (241–180 BC)
Lü Xiaojun (born 1984)Chinese weightlifter
Lu Yen-Hsun (born 1983)Taiwanese tennis player
Ed Lu (born 1963)American physicist and astronaut

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

Surnames like Lu

Also a first name

Lu has been given to 4,081 American babies as a first name since 1886, 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.