Given name & surname
Lo
“a feisty woman”
Lo is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “a feisty woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “a feisty woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 86
- 33 boys · 53 girls
- Most popular year
- 1987
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,085 as a first name in 2020; 19,169 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lo’s family of names
In English usage, Lo as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Law. Lo has a related form in Lola. Lo has a related form in Low.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Lo
- Lo MutucAmerican actorborn 1986
- Lo KauppiSwedish film and theater actress, director, and television presenterborn 1970
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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