The LAURENCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,049	9789	0.001	11
United States (1880 census)	3,344	1835	0.007	67
Change since 1880	-295	-7954	-0.006	-56
Other Countries
Australia	383	4138	0.002	23
United Kingdom	1,004	5253	0.002	22

Top States for LAURENCE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	371	5923	0.002	18
California	361	8255	0.001	11
Florida	207	9871	0.001	13
New York	196	10803	0.001	10
Massachusetts	132	6844	0.002	21
Top States for LAURENCE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	49	3609	0.005	47
Louisiana	115	5033	0.003	26
Delaware	19	7755	0.002	24
Washington DC	12	5292	0.002	21
Massachusetts	132	6844	0.002	21

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

Classification and Origin of LAURENCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAURENCE 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 LAURENCE 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 LAURENCE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	329	10.79
Mixed Race	76	2.49
White (Hispanic)	71	2.33
Native American/Alaskan	53	1.74
Asian/Pacific	16	0.52
White (Caucasian)	2,504	82.13

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

Similar names to LAURENCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAURENCE.

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.