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The LANIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 20,181 1625 0.007 75
United States (1880 census) 3,178 1922 0.006 64
Change since 1880 +17003 +297 +0.001 +11
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LANIER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,990 374 0.037 371
Georgia 2,777 369 0.034 339
Florida 2,258 922 0.014 141
Alabama 1,417 534 0.032 319
Texas 1,416 1780 0.007 68
Top States for LANIER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 2,990 374 0.037 371
Georgia 2,777 369 0.034 339
Alabama 1,417 534 0.032 319
South Carolina 772 871 0.019 192
Tennessee 808 1136 0.014 142

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of LANIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LANIER 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.

Ethnic distribution of LANIER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 242 1.2
White (Hispanic) 228 1.13
Native American/Alaskan 83 0.41
Asian/Pacific 67 0.33
White (Caucasian) 14,090 69.82
Black/African American 5,469 27.1

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

Meaning of LANIER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LANIER.

Similar names to LANIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANIER.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LANIER

The following words are slight variants of LANIER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.