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    The surname Liou

    A surname, carried by 1,162 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L000

    Liou: #22,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Liou #22,201, 1,162 people Liou: #22,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Liou #22,201, 1,162 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Liou is more common than 86.3% of them.

    Origin

    * From the Mandarin pronunciation of Mandarin 劉 /刘 (liú). Doublet of Lau, Liu, and Luu.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,162 people named Liou in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,702 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,142.

    #22,201
    rank among US surnames
    1,162
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #21,369)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #22,194Ramanathan1,163265,473
    #22,201Janak1,162265,702

    Who is named Liou

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Liou identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 3.3% as two or more races and 3.1% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 93%
    • Two or more races 3.3%
    • White (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Liou

    Liou has the Soundex code L000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L000.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Liou come from?
    * From the Mandarin pronunciation of Mandarin 劉 /刘 (liú). Doublet of Lau, Liu, and Luu.
    How common is the surname Liou?
    1,162 people in the United States had the surname Liou in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,702 Americans. It ranked 22,201st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Liou?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Liou identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.3% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Liou getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,142 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,162 in 2010, up 1.8%.