Vo

Vo is the 751st most common surname in the United States, shared by 45,170 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,617.

By the numbers

People: 45,170
Rank: 751st
How common: 1 in 6,617
Per 100,000: 15.1

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Vietnamese Võ.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
White, not Hispanic 1.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Vo

Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911–2013)Vietnamese general and communist politician
Võ Văn Thưởng (born 1970)President of Vietnam
Vo Chi Cong (1912–2011)President of Vietnam
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân (born 1970)Vietnamese politician
Vo Van Kiet (1922–2008)prime minister of Vietnam
Võ Thị Sáu (1933–1952)Vietnamese revolutionary martyr

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

Surnames like Vo

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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.