Luce

Luce is the 3,777th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,158 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 32,600.

By the numbers

People: 9,158
Rank: 3,777th
How common: 1 in 32,600
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Luce

Maximilien Luce (1858–1941)French painter
Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist
Henry Luce (1898–1967)American magazine publisher
Angela Luce (1938–2026)Italian actress and singer
Renan Luce (born 1980)French singer

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

Surnames like Luce

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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.