Qu

At the 2020 census, 4,227 Americans bore the surname Qu — 7,577th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 70,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,227
Rank: 7,577th
How common: 1 in 70,700
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from the cmn-pinyin romanization of various cmn surnames, including.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.4%
White, not Hispanic 2.4%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Qu

Qu Yuan (342 BC–277 BC)Chinese poet and politician (c.340–278 BC)
Qu Yunxia (born 1972)Chinese middle distance runner
Qu Qiubai (1899–1935)Chinese litterateur
Qu You (1341–1433)Chinese novelist
Qu Dongyu (born 1963)Chinese politician
Qu Chunyu (born 1996)Chinese speed skater

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

Surnames like Qu

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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.