Lŭ
given name · Latin script
Lŭ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 58th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Betawi Udik lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lo.
- USUnited States1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 6.2Kas Lò
- FIFinland1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lŭ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
35,628 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lu in US United States, VN Vietnam and Lo in ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Betawi Udiklo“you”(measured from records)
- Hokkien汝lú(measured from records)
From Betawi Udik lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lo.
Sources 9
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lŭ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 35,628 | 1 in 9.3K | 47K | Lu | 107 |
| VN Vietnam | #58 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | listed | Lu | 109 |
| AR Argentina | — | 6,259as Lo | 1 in 7.3K | 6.3K | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 1,818 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Lo | 11 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 46 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 492 | 1 in 11K | 492 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 474 | 1 in 12K | 474 | — | 6 |
35,628 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lŭ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Betawi Udik lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lo. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 7 other sources.
- Is Lŭ a male or female name?
- Lŭ is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Lŭ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Lŭ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lu.
- Where is Lŭ most common?
- Lŭ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lŭ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,628 people named Lŭ in 2010, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Lŭ compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Lŭ is the 58th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C5%ADThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lŭ” — the 58th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.