Lux

Lux is the 5,614th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,975 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 50,000.

By the numbers

People: 5,975
Rank: 5,614th
How common: 1 in 50,000
Per 100,000: 2.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.1%
Hispanic or Latino 15.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Lux

Germán Lux (born 1982)Argentine association football player
Gary Lux (born 1959)Canadian-Austrian singer
Vitalij Lux (born 1989)Kyrgyz association football player
Venus Lux (born 1990)American pornographic actress
Štefan Lux (1888–1936)journalist, film director
Guy Lux (1919–2003)French television presenter
Eric Lux (born 1967)Luxembourg businessperson

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

Also a first name

Lux has been given to 3,181 American babies as a first name since 2001, peaking in 2014. 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.