Tu

At the 2020 census, 10,693 Americans bore the surname Tu — 3,298th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 28,000.

By the numbers

People: 10,693
Rank: 3,298th
How common: 1 in 28,000
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

Most likely from the cmn-pinyin romanization of cmn 屠 or 涂.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Tu

Tu Youyou (born 1930)Chinese medical scientist
Meilen Tu (born 1978)American tennis player

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

Surnames like Tu

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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.