Luo

Luo is the 2,191st most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,214 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People: 16,214
Rank: 2,191st
How common: 1 in 18,400
Per 100,000: 5.4

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 Luo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.1%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
Hispanic or Latino 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Luo

Luo Guanzhong (1334–1400)14th-century Chinese writer
Luo Ruiqing (1906–1978)Chinese general, politician
Luo Binwang (640–684)Chinese writer
Luo Ronghuan (1902–1963)Marshal of the People's Republic of China
Luo Xiaojuan (born 1984)Chinese fencer
Luo Yixiu (1889–1910)first wife of the future Chinese revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong
Luo Xuejuan (born 1984)Chinese swimmer
Luo Yutong (born 1985)Chinese diver

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

Surnames like Luo

Luong
Luongo

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.