Vu

At the 2020 census, 43,790 Americans bore the surname Vu — 773rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,826.

By the numbers

People: 43,790
Rank: 773rd
How common: 1 in 6,826
Per 100,000: 14.7

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Vietnamese Vũ.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Vu 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 1.9%
White, not Hispanic 1.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Vu

Joseph Vu Van Thien (born 1960)Vietnamese archbishop
Vũ Thị Trang (born 1992)Vietnamese badminton player

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

Surnames like Vu

Vue
Vuong

Also a first name

Vu has been given to 770 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1982. 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.