Neu

At the 2020 census, 4,086 Americans bore the surname Neu — 7,793rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 73,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,086
Rank: 7,793rd
How common: 1 in 73,200
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

From the German and Jewish surname, from the adjective neu (“new”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Neu

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.