The Luo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 10,005 people carried this name — #3,564 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 29,500 people counted. That is up 101% from 4,990 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Luo surname
Transliteration of Mandarin 羅 /罗 (luó).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Luo» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
160 people named Luo live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 Argentina’s national register
At least 127 people named Luo 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 City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 87 people named Luo live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Flemish Brabant.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
287 people named Luo are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Luo in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1980s.
1,378 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Luo. The most, 253, date from the 1900s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 1.3 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 Luo.
Who carried it
People named Luo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Luo Qiu d. 881 · writer
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Luo Rucai d. 1642 · rebel
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Luo Bingzhong d. 1480 · military personnel
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Luo Shang d. 310 · politician
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Luo Yangxing d. 1649 · politician
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Lo Jingrang d. 2016 · basketball player
Wikidata (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Luo,
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 States8 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
- Sacramento County historic burials 1
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Michelangelo LuoArrived at New York in 1895 aboard the Alesia from Marseilles and Naples, aged 32; laborer. From Italy; bound for New York.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) -
Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Wen T. LuoBorn 1915 in Hopchiao, China. Entered the United States at San Francisco in 1948. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.
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Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Hing LuoDied 1917, aged 63; buried at City Cem/So Side, Sacramento County, California.
Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 8 records for Luo in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).
France2 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Yvonne LuoBorn 1916 in Enghien-les-Bains (Val-d'Oise); died 1990 in Berck (Pas-de-Calais).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 1 of 2 records for Luo 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 Luo.
- Lundquist 6,853 · U.S. census
- Lundy 14,850 · U.S. census
- Luneau 452 · U.S. census
- Lunetta 598 · U.S. census
- Lung 7,753 · U.S. census
- Lunsford 16,962 · U.S. census
- Luong 14,464 · U.S. census
- Luongo 2,686 · U.S. census
- Lupfer 366 · U.S. census
- Lupi 699 · U.S. census
- Lupin 133 · U.S. census
- Lupo 5,425 · U.S. census
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