The LAING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,836	5478	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	958	5651	0.002	19
Change since 1880	+4878	+173	0	+3
Other Countries
Australia	1,711	952	0.01	105
United Kingdom	7,496	819	0.016	163

Top States for LAING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	622	3193	0.004	39
California	504	5412	0.001	15
New York	496	3772	0.003	26
Texas	295	6368	0.001	14
Michigan	288	4012	0.003	29
Top States for LAING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	92	2991	0.004	41
West Virginia	71	2910	0.004	39
Florida	622	3193	0.004	39
Idaho	50	3559	0.004	39
Wyoming	19	3434	0.004	38

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LAING live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LAING represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LAING in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LAING by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LAING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LAING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LAING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	800	13.71
White (Hispanic)	171	2.93
Asian/Pacific	77	1.32
Mixed Race	77	1.32
Native American/Alaskan	7	0.12
White (Caucasian)	4,704	80.6

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LAING surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LAING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAING.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.