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    The surname Luk

    A Chinese surname, carried by 1,920 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L200

    Luk: #15,289 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Luk #15,289, 1,920 people Luk: #15,289 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Luk #15,289, 1,920 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Luk is more common than 90.6% of them.

    Origin

    Chinese origin

    Borrowed from Cantonese 陸 /陆 (luk⁶).

    One of 193 Chinese surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,920 people named Luk in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 160,805 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,727.

    #15,289
    rank among US surnames
    1,920
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +11.2%
    change since 2000 (was #15,551)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,284Fallis1,921160,721
    #15,289Jenkinson1,920160,805
    #15,296Brasfield1,919160,889

    Who is named Luk

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

    92% of people named Luk identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 3.4% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as two or more races.

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 92%
    • White (not Hispanic) 3.4%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

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

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Luk

    Luk has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

    Other Chinese surnames

    All 193 Chinese surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Luk come from?
    Borrowed from Cantonese 陸 /陆 (luk⁶).
    How common is the surname Luk?
    1,920 people in the United States had the surname Luk in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 160,805 Americans. It ranked 15,289th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Luk?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Luk identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.4% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Luk getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,727 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,920 in 2010, up 11%.