The LOMAX surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,120	3579	0.003	34
United States (1880 census)	1,930	3064	0.004	39
Change since 1880	+7190	-515	-0.001	-5
Other Countries
Australia	336	4691	0.002	21
United Kingdom	4,677	1336	0.01	102

Top States for LOMAX by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	554	2486	0.004	45
California	544	5604	0.002	16
Texas	536	4315	0.003	26
North Carolina	517	2344	0.006	64
Pennsylvania	513	3217	0.004	42
Top States for LOMAX by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Washington DC	103	652	0.018	180
South Carolina	508	1409	0.013	127
Maryland	501	1308	0.009	95
Delaware	64	2382	0.008	82
Tennessee	456	2006	0.008	80

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

Classification and Origin of LOMAX

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	232	2.54
White (Hispanic)	125	1.37
Native American/Alaskan	59	0.65
Asian/Pacific	22	0.24
Black/African American	4,782	52.43
White (Caucasian)	3,900	42.76

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

Similar names to LOMAX

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOMAX.

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.