Surname

Lưu

Lưu is a surname from Chinese. It is used in Vietnamese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Lưu comes from Chinese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Lưu’s family of names

In Vietnamese usage, Lưu as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Liu.

Walk Lưu’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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