Xue

At the 2020 census, 6,014 Americans bore the surname Xue — 5,579th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 49,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,014
Rank: 5,579th
How common: 1 in 49,700
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

From the Chinese surname, from cmn 薛 (“type of grass; name of an ancient state, fief”). More at Xue.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 96.2%
White, not Hispanic 2.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Hispanic or Latino 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Xue

Shen Xue (born 1978)Chinese pair skater
Zhao Xue (born 1985)Chinese chess grandmaster
Bai Xue (born 1988)Chinese long distance runner
Xue Tao (768–831)Tang Dynasty poet Chinese woman poet in Qing Dynasty. CBDB ID = 0095068
Xue Haifeng (born 1980)Chinese archer
Can Xue (born 1953)Chinese writer, literary critic, and tailor
Xue Chen (born 1989)Chinese beach volleyball player
Tan Xue (born 1984)Chinese fencer

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

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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.