Woo
At the 2020 census, 13,207 Americans bore the surname Woo — 2,669th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,600.
By the numbers
- People
- 13,207
- Rank
- 2,669th
- How common
- 1 in 22,600
- Per 100,000
- 4.4
Where the name comes from
Origin Chinese
From an irregular romanization of various Chinese surnames including, , and or from yue.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Woo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Woo
- John Woo (born 1946)Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Woo Do-hwan (born 1992)South Korean actor
- Woo Sang-hyeok (born 1996)South Korean athletics competitor
- Seo Woo (born 1985)South Korean actress
- Woo Sun-Hee (born 1978)South Korean handball player
- Kevin Woo (born 1991)Korean-American singer
- Woo Sang-kwon (1928–1975)South Korean footballer
- Woo Haram (born 1998)South Korean diver
People named Woo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Woo
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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.