Ngo

At the 2020 census, 38,770 Americans bore the surname Ngo — 881st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,710.

By the numbers

People: 38,770
Rank: 881st
How common: 1 in 7,710
Per 100,000: 13.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Vietnamese, from Hokkien

from nan-hbl 吳.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Ngo

Ngô Đình Diệm (1901–1963)South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963
Ngô Bảo Châu (born 1972)Vietnamese math professor
Ngô Thanh Vân (born 1979)Norwegian-Vietnamese actress, singer, dancer, model, businesswoman and filmmaker
Ngo Dinh Nhu (1910–1963)Vietnamese archivist and politician
Ngô Đình Thục (1897–1984)Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest, archbishop of Huế
Pierre Ngo (born 1976)Hong Kong actor and host

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

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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.