Ryu
3,194 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ryu in the 2020 census, making it the 9,700th most common in the country. That is about one person in 93,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 3,194
- Rank
- 9,700th
- How common
- 1 in 93,600
- Per 100,000
- 1.1
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Ryu described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.
Notable people called Ryu
- Ryu Jun-yeol (born 1986)South Korean actor
- Ryu Seung-min (born 1982)South Korean Olympic table tennis player
- Ryu Hwa-young (born 1993)South Korean singer, rapper and actress
- Chishū Ryū (1904–1993)Japanese actor
- Hyun-jin Ryu (born 1987)South Korean professional baseball player
- Ryu Seung-woo (born 1993)South Korean footballer
- Ryu Seung-ryong (born 1970)South Korean actor
- Ryu Hye-young (born 1991)South Korean actress
People named Ryu with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Also a first name
Ryu has been given to 1,690 American babies as a first name since 1985, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.
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.