Лу
surname · Cyrillic script
Meaning: initialism of Любля́нский университе́т (Ljubljánskij universitét, “UL”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɛɫu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Лу is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 423K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 9.3Kas Lu
- CNChina≈1 in 306Kas Weiliang
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 Лу 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 423K (inferred from the name graph)
35,628 named Lu, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Weiliang in US United States, ES Spain, CN China.
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)
initialism of Любля́нский университе́т (Ljubljánskij universitét, “UL”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Лу 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 | 35,628as Lu | 1 in 9.3K | 47K | Weiliang | 86 |
| CN China | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Weiliang | 50 |
| ES Spain | 1,818as Lu | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Weiliang | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 766as Lu | 1 in 13K | 766 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 492as Lu | 1 in 11K | 492 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 474as Lu | 1 in 12K | 474 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 423K | — | Лу | 92 |
| DK Denmark | 260as Lu | 1 in 23K | 260 | — | — |
35,628 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling lu. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Лу is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ce, roe deer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In niv, song
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lisa Lub. 1927USChinese actress (born 1927)
- Chuan Leekpaib. 1938THnot in their usual nameThai politician
- Judy Loeb. 1947GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Lü Yueb. 1957CNChinese cinematographer and film director
- Ken Lob. 1959CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong martial artist
- Edward Tsang Lub. 1963USAmerican physicist and astronaut
- Lu Yib. 1976CNChinese actor and singer
- Jing Lusib. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese-British actress
- Jessica Lub. 1985USAmerican actress
- Lu Hanb. 1990CNChinese singer and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Лу mean, and where does it come from?
- initialism of Любля́нский университе́т (Ljubljánskij universitét, “UL”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Лу?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɫu/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Лу have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Lu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Лу?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,628 people named Lu in 2010, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%BB%D1%83The 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, “Лу”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.