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The LEMA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,617 11123 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 32 61635 0 1
Change since 1880 +2585 +50512 +N/A +9
Other Countries
Australia 25 44429 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LEMA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 574 3709 0.003 30
California 408 7352 0.001 12
New Jersey 248 4299 0.003 29
Florida 195 10360 0.001 12
Massachusetts 167 5456 0.003 26
Top States for LEMA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 154 1098 0.015 147
New York 574 3709 0.003 30
New Jersey 248 4299 0.003 29
Massachusetts 167 5456 0.003 26
Minnesota 101 8331 0.002 21

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

Classification and Origin of LEMA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LEMA surname.

Ethnic distribution of LEMA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 125 4.78
Mixed Race 66 2.52
Asian/Pacific 31 1.18
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.65
White (Caucasian) 1,066 40.73
White (Hispanic) 1,312 50.13

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

LEMA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LEMA in historical publications

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

Similar names to LEMA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEMA.

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 LEMA

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