Statistics compiled by
Patrick Hanks on the basis of the
2011 United Kingdom census and the
Census of Ireland 2011 found 190 people with the surname Lum on the island of
Great Britain and one on the island of
Ireland. In the
1881 United Kingdom census there were 76 bearers of the surname, primarily at
West Yorkshire.[1] The
2010 United States census found 8,060 people with the surname Lum, making it the 4,406th-most-common surname in the country. This was roughly the same number of people as in the
2000 census (8,044 people; 4,042nd-most-common). In the 2010 census, roughly 17% of the bearers of the surname identified as
non-Hispanic white, while the number identifying as Asian decreased from 68% in the 2000 census to 62% in the 2010 census.[3]