Mu

3,164 people in the United States were counted with the surname Mu in the 2020 census, making it the 9,775th most common in the country. That is about one person in 94,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,164
Rank: 9,775th
How common: 1 in 94,500
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.6%
White, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Hispanic or Latino 1.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.1%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Mu

Du Mu (803–852)Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician
Athing Mu (born 2002)South Sudanese-American middle-distance runner
Li Mu (250 BC–228 BC)Chinese general for the State of Zhao
Ch'ien Mu (1895–1990)Chinese historian, philosopher and writer
Mu Qimiya (born 1987)Chinese actor
Fei Mu (1906–1951)Chinese film director

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

Surnames like Mu

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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.