Ly
Ly is the 1,024th most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,559 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,907.
By the numbers
- People
- 33,559
- Rank
- 1,024th
- How common
- 1 in 8,907
- Per 100,000
- 11.2
Where the name comes from
Origin Vietnamese
Borrowed from Vietnamese Lý.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Ly described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Ly
- Hồ Quý Ly (1336–1407)Vietnamese emperor
- Ladj Ly (born 1978)French filmmaker
- Lý Thường Kiệt (1019–1105)Vietnamese general, politician, poet, eunuch and national hero
- Lý Thánh Tông (1023–1072)Vietnamese Emperor
- Lý Nam Đế (503–548)Emperor of Vạn Xuân from 544 to 548
- Oumar Tatam Ly (born 1963)Malian politician
- Ly Nhan Tong (1066–1127)Vietnamese emperor
People named Ly with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Ly
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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.