Xu

Xu is the 763rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 44,406 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 6,731.

By the numbers

People: 44,406
Rank: 763rd
How common: 1 in 6,731
Per 100,000: 14.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Mandarin

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of cmn ^徐 or ^許.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Xu

Xu Yuhua (born 1976)Chinese chess player
Xu Guangqi (1562–1633)late-Ming-dynasty Chinese politician, Scholar, Lay Catholic leader and Servant of God (*1562 – †1633)
Xu Xin (born 1990)Chinese table tennis player
Xu Zhimo (1897–1931)Chinese poet
Xu Mengtao (born 1990)Chinese female freestyle skier
Xu Jiayu (born 1995)Chinese swimmer
Xu Jinglei (born 1974)Chinese actress and film director
Xu Caihou (1943–2015)former General of the People's Liberation Army

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

Surnames like Xu

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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.