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A Chinese romanization whose meaning depends on the written character.

US rank (2025)#11,932

Meaning and history

Lú can represent a number of Chinese surnames and given-name elements, with its meaning determined by the written character; examples include characters associated with “road,” “jade,” or the ancient state of Lu. The accented spelling is a tone-marked romanization rather than one name with a single definition. Notable bearers depend on the particular Chinese character used.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: no US SSA record for this spelling
2007: no US SSA record for this spelling
2008: no US SSA record for this spelling
2009: no US SSA record for this spelling
2010: no US SSA record for this spelling
20112011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: 5 births, rank #16,869
2013: 5 births, rank #16,547
2014: no US SSA record for this spelling
2015: no US SSA record for this spelling
20162016: 10 births, rank #10,113
2017: 6 births, rank #14,124
2018: 5 births, rank #15,682
2019: 5 births, rank #15,539
2020: 7 births, rank #12,142
20212021: no US SSA record for this spelling
2022: 9 births, rank #10,383
2023: 11 births, rank #8,989
2024: 8 births, rank #11,122
20252025: 7 births, rank #11,932

Lú moved from #788 to #893 for girls between 1960 and 1961. Its highest annual birth count came in 1954, with 394 births.