Zhu
35,639 people in the United States were counted with the surname Zhu in the 2020 census, making it the 966th most common in the country. That is about one person in 8,387.
By the numbers
- People
- 35,639
- Rank
- 966th
- How common
- 1 in 8,387
- Per 100,000
- 11.9
Where the name comes from
Origin Chinese
From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the cmn Chinese pronunciation for.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Zhu described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Zhu
- Zhu Xi (1130–1200)Chinese historian, neo-Confucian philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty
- Zhu Rongji (1928–2026)5th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1998 to 2003
- Zhu De (1886–1976)Marshal of the People's Republic of China (1886－1976)
- Zhu Chen (born 1976)Chinese-Qatari chess player
- Yang Zhu (368 BC–317 BC)Chinese founder of Yangist philosophy (440–c.360 BC)
- Zhu Shijie (1249–1314)mathematician of Yuan dynasty (during the reign of Temür Khan), inventor of Chinese quaternion, Si yuan shu (四元術) and stacking technique Duo ji shu (垛積術)
- Zhu Ting (born 1994)Female Chinese volleyball player
- Zhu Youlang, Prince of Gui (1623–1662)Chinese Emperor
People named Zhu with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Zhu
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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.