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The LOU surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,441 11758 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 273 15354 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +2168 +3596 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 141 10454 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LOU by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 832 3653 0.002 25
New York 243 8054 0.001 13
Texas 189 9537 0.001 9
New Jersey 114 8745 0.001 14
Illinois 111 12098 0.001 9
Top States for LOU by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 832 3653 0.002 25
Hawaii 20 5738 0.002 17
New Jersey 114 8745 0.001 14
Massachusetts 86 9308 0.001 14
Washington 79 9309 0.001 13

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LOU live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LOU represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LOU in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LOU by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LOU

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LOU surname.

Ethnic distribution of LOU in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 332 13.6
Mixed Race 77 3.15
White (Hispanic) 76 3.11
Asian/Pacific 1,910 78.25
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LOU surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

LOU is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LOU in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LOU.

Similar names to LOU

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOU.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LOU

The following words are slight variants of LOU that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.