The Lugo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 37,903 people carried this name — #913 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 7,780 people counted. That is up 29% from 29,328 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 21,409 people named Lugo live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
41 people named Lugo live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Lugo in American newspapers,
1908–1920.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 25,705 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Lugo in Australian newspapers,
1830s–1950s.
364 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lugo. The most, 155, date from the 1890s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 2.3 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lugo.
Who carried it
People named Lugo,
with a public archive behind them.
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John de Lugo 1583–1660 · economist -
Antonio María Lugo 1775–1860 -
María Antonia Lugo 1776– -
Emil Lugo 1840–1902 · painter -
Américo Lugo 1870–1952 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 71 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Lugo,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States1,030 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 487
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 277
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 160
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 81
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 12
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 9
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 3
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Manuel A. LugoBorn 1916 in Arizona. Enlisted 1945 at Fort Macarthur San Pedro, California; molder. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1980, buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Giuseppe LugoArrived at New York in 1903 aboard the Roma from Naples, aged 14; laborer. From Foggia, Italy; bound for Waterbury.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Anthony Santana LugoBorn 1948; from Torrance, California. U.S. Army, infantryman; died of wounds 1970 in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
Showing 3 of 1,030 records for Lugo in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).
France7 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Jean Jacques LugoBorn 1933 in Bordeaux (Gironde); died 1991 in Excideuil (Dordogne).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Constance LugoBorn 1904 in Gros-Morne; died 1999 in Saint-Joseph (Martinique).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Bernard LugoBorn 1942 in Bordeaux (Gironde); died 2000 in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 3 of 7 records for Lugo in France.
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lugo.
- Ludwiczak 222 · U.S. census
- Ludwig 22,380 · U.S. census
- Luengo 171 · U.S. census
- Luevano 6,324 · U.S. census
- Lugan 130 · U.S. census
- Luginbühl 418 · U.S. census
- Lugue 265 · U.S. census
- Lui 6,156 · U.S. census
- Luis 9,255 · U.S. census
- Luisi 1,105 · U.S. census
- Luiz 1,581 · U.S. census
- Lujan 22,021 · U.S. census
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