Lữ

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lữ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 58th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Sino-Vietnamese word from 呂. Doublet of Lã.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 6.2Kas Lò
  • FIFinland1 in 11K

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 Lữ 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)

35,628 people, 2010

Sources
109 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LoLatin(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lu in US United States, VN Vietnam and Lo in ES Spain.

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)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 呂. Doublet of Lã.

Sources 1

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lữ 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.

Where Lữ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—35,6281 in 9.3K47KLu107
VN Vietnam#58≈16,000 est.≈1 in 6.2KlistedLu109
AR Argentina—6,259as Lo1 in 7.3K6.3K——
ES Spain—1,8181 in 28K1.8KLo11
SN Senegal—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 14K46—2
FI Finland—4921 in 11K492—1
NO Norway—4741 in 12K474—6

35,628 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lữ is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, India, United Kingdom

    Also written Lu, Lü, Lû, Lù, Lu̕

  • Indonesian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, China, Malaysia, United States

    Also written Lu, Lü, Lu', Lù, Lư

  • Spanish surname42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, China

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Lu, Lú, Lü, Lù, Lu'

  • Croatian surname39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Croatia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Lu, Лу, Lü, Lú, Lù

  • a separate name18 spellings in the group

    Also written Lǖ, Lư̄, Lũ, Lű, Lü

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Lü Bu, b. 160Lü Meng, b. 178Lü Zhi, b. 241Lü Buwei, b. 291Chuan Leekpai, b. 1938Ray Lui, b. 1956Lü Yue, b. 1957Lü Liping, b. 1960Lu Hsueh-Feng, b. 1964Lü Huihui, b. 1989
  • Lü Bub. 160CNChinese warlord and general
  • Lü Mengb. 178CNGeneral serving under warlord Sun Quan (178-220)
  • Lü Zhib. 241CNEmpress Regent of the Han dynasty (241–180 BC)
  • Lü Buweib. 291Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291–235 BC)
  • Chuan Leekpaib. 1938THnot in their usual nameThai politician
  • Ray Luib. 1956CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
  • Lü Yueb. 1957CNChinese cinematographer and film director
  • Lü Lipingb. 1960CNChinese actress
  • Lu Hsueh-Fengb. 1964TWTaiwanese actress
  • Lü Huihuib. 1989CNChinese javelin thrower

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Lữ mean, and where does it come from?
Sino-Vietnamese word from 呂. Doublet of Lã. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Lữ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Lữ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lu.
Where is Lữ most common?
Lữ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lữ?
In the United States, the national register counted 35,628 people named Lữ in 2010, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
How common is Lữ compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Lữ is the 58th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lữ” — the 58th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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