The Lieu surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,612 people carried this name — #9,045 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 82,000 people counted. That is up 23% from 2,933 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Lieu surname
As a Vietnamese surname, from liễu (“willow tree”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Lieu» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 52 people named Lieu.
Most of them — 49 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 3 départements, most often Gers.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
52 people named Lieu is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Lieu in American newspapers,
1907–1918.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 949,567 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Lieu,
with a public archive behind them.
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Samuel N. C. Lieu 1950– · historian
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Samuel N. C. Lieu 1950– · historian
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Liz Lieu 1974– · poker player
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Kane Lieu 1990– · actor
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Mila Lieu 2012– · actor
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lieu.
- Lier 231 · U.S. census
- Liermann 450 · U.S. census
- Lies 1,180 · U.S. census
- Liess 279 · U.S. census
- Liesse 151 · U.S. census
- Lietaert 134 · U.S. census
- Lieux 129 · U.S. census
- Lievens 290 · U.S. census
- Liger 122 · U.S. census
- Liguori 2,027 · U.S. census
- Lile 2,608 · U.S. census
- Lillo 908 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Lieu is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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