The Phu surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,230 people carried this name — #13,593 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 131,600 people counted. That is up 25% from 1,781 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 55 people named Phu.
Most of them — 47 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 3 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
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
93 people named Phu 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
Phu in American newspapers,
1914–1919.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 61,188 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Phu,
with a public archive behind them.
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Thy Phu 1975– · academic
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Phu.
- Philippi 1,184 · U.S. census
- Philippon 252 · U.S. census
- Philipps 1,595 · U.S. census
- Philips 6,840 · U.S. census
- Phillips 360,802 · U.S. census
- Philogene 788 · U.S. census
- Phung 7,155 · U.S. census
- Pi 1,006 · U.S. census
- Pia 787 · U.S. census
- Piacentini 579 · U.S. census
- Piacentino 296 · U.S. census
- Piacenza 272 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Phu is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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