Lou is used as a family name or surname in China. It is 3 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Lou
No. of characters: 3
Origin: China
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Lou

How popular is Lou?

Lou is common in China.

Lou is ranked 553 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Lous grew by 20.64728 per cent to 2945 since 2000 and ranked 10815 after elevating 943 spots. The last name was found in around 10 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 79.66 78.25
White 11.95 13.6
Hispanic or Latino 3.5 3.11
Others 2.92 3.15
Lou is quite popular family name mostly used in China while Macau is ahead in terms of density. Around 918449 people have been found who wears Lou as their family name. Lou is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
39,450 Moldova8
7,022 Senegal7
2,028 Vietnam5
101,066 Zimbabwe5
16,861 Iran4
114,007 Czech Republic4
6,706 Lebanon3
6,989 Uganda3
35,789 Turkey3
6,779 Nicaragua3
2,444 Sudan3
26,321 Israel3
7,683 Latvia3
15,956 Venezuela3
4,529 Mauritius3
11,532 Croatia3
14,494 Armenia3
9,097 Wales3
8,926 Cameroon3
9,077 Lithuania3
20,186 Kenya2
5,300 Syria2
37,372 Georgia2
15,591 Burkina Faso2
2,705 Togo2
2,168 Suriname2
34,681 Norway2
787 Andorra2
5,726 Puerto Rico2
28,083 Romania2
5,139 Bolivia2
40,064 Nigeria2
4,104 South Korea2
801 Cape Verde1
15,162 Costa Rica1
24,771 Colombia1
6,149 Ethiopia1
1,176 Antigua and Barbuda1
6,820 Angola1
12,745 Luxembourg1
356 Eritrea1
7,198 Maldives1
2,877 Cuba1
2,190 Barbados1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
8,430 Northern Ireland1
3,350 Fiji1
48,575 Azerbaijan1
17,575 Kuwait1
971 Seychelles1
2,057 Myanmar1
1,819 Laos1
1,421 Saint Lucia1
5,924 Paraguay1
2,935 Madagascar1
3,307 Malta1
17,768 Pakistan1
624 Solomon Islands1
1,179 Swaziland1
25,746 Finland1
7,790 Zambia1
32,942 Uzbekistan1
2,715 Gabon1
17,236 Ghana1
9,541 Turkmenistan1
3,586 Honduras1
20,172 Hungary1
9,498 Iceland1
2,724 New Caledonia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
5,205 Qatar49
8,504 Ireland33
21,901 Chile27
1,056 The Bahamas21
3,578 Japan19
11,516 Mauritania18
58,753 Belarus16
7,162 Thailand15
35,676 Kyrgyzstan14
7,643 Trinidad and Tobago11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
6,636 Ecuador92
12,684 Switzerland90
11,356 United Arab Emirates84
14,205 Sweden65
Countries with hundreds of Lou:
4,575 Canada981
4,972 Spain876
15,167 Brazil874
22,497 Russia729
7,880 Egypt715
4,232 Australia711
759 Singapore615
19,163 Indonesia601
8,932 Mexico550
3,235 Greece516
3,564 Tunisia462
13,663 South Africa457
1,016 Panama392
7,716 Belgium238
36,798 Italy235
101,980 India209
3,025 Denmark197
28,734 Poland191
9,668 Peru185
30,612 Ukraine177
31,005 Argentina164
18,956 Saudi Arabia154
9,948 Austria131
4,007 Portugal129
21,335 Netherlands124
289 French Polynesia119
23,004 Kazakhstan110
5,272 Scotland105
7,009 New Zealand104
Countries with thousands of Lou:
148 Taiwan7,880
7,285 United States5,209
533 Ivory Coast4,676
2,634 Philippines4,640
554 Guatemala3,690
2,281 France3,196
2,049 Algeria3,124
31 Macau2,657
1,735 Malaysia1,619
715 Papua New Guinea1,494
293 Hong Kong1,435
6,699 Germany1,412
1,132 Cambodia1,368
5,433 England1,334
4,491 Morocco1,141
Countries with hundred thousands of Lou:
150 China861,832
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

During the great famine, 18 years old immigrant Susan Lou who was residing in Ireland migrated to New-York on June 27, 1849 by St. Lawrence put out from Liverpool.

Lou Namesakes

  • Toivo Loukola, Olympic athlete
  • Aaron Loup, Baseball pitcher
  • Abba Louisa Goold Woolson, Author
  • Catherine Louise Abbot-Anderson, Hugh Dennis' wife
  • Abdellatif Loudiyi, Politician
  • Abdellatif Loudiyi, Politician
  • Abdellatif Loudiyi, Politician
  • Abdoulaye Loum, Basketball Player
  • Rob Lougheed, Teacher
  • Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta
  • In 2018, Yixiao Lou portrayed the role of Hu Yifei in adventure and comedy movie Ai qing gong yu.

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