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The LINDSAY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 31,744 1008 0.012 118
United States (1880 census) 7,222 839 0.014 144
Change since 1880 +24522 -169 -0.002 -26
Other Countries
Australia 4,251 344 0.026 260
United Kingdom 14,197 418 0.031 309
Top States for LINDSAY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,606 1244 0.008 77
Florida 2,037 984 0.013 127
North Carolina 1,951 584 0.024 242
New York 1,798 983 0.009 95
Pennsylvania 1,580 825 0.013 129
Top States for LINDSAY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 683 388 0.031 306
Washington DC 152 377 0.027 266
Idaho 333 473 0.026 257
North Carolina 1,951 584 0.024 242
South Carolina 918 702 0.023 229

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

Classification and Origin of LINDSAY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 559 1.76
White (Hispanic) 502 1.58
Native American/Alaskan 175 0.55
Asian/Pacific 156 0.49
White (Caucasian) 23,843 75.11
Black/African American 6,511 20.51

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

Meaning of LINDSAY in historical publications

LINDSAY. This distinguished family, who boasted of twenty Earls of Crawford, extending from the year 1398 to 1808, and whose deeds have been recorded by a noble member of the house, in his " Lives of the Lindsays," were in all probability of English origin, and the name appears to have been derived from the divisiou of the county of Lincoln still called the " Parts of Lindsey," though some genealogists deduce it from the manor of Lindsey in Essex.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LINDSAY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LINDSAY.

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 LINDSAY

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