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The LYMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 11,465 2875 0.004 42
United States (1880 census) 5,415 1116 0.011 108
Change since 1880 +6050 -1759 -0.007 -66
Other Countries
Australia 21 50672 0 1
United Kingdom 356 11362 0.001 8
Top States for LYMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,190 2639 0.004 35
New York 806 2310 0.004 42
Utah 763 335 0.034 342
Massachusetts 655 1379 0.010 103
Florida 544 3779 0.003 34
Top States for LYMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 763 335 0.034 342
Vermont 196 464 0.032 322
Wyoming 102 509 0.021 207
Maine 165 1480 0.013 129
New Hampshire 155 1264 0.013 125

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

Classification and Origin of LYMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 425 3.71
Mixed Race 251 2.19
White (Hispanic) 202 1.76
Asian/Pacific 183 1.6
Native American/Alaskan 88 0.77
White (Caucasian) 10,316 89.98

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

Meaning of LYMAN in historical publications

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

Similar names to LYMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LYMAN.

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 LYMAN

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