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The LADY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,085 22196 0 4
United States (1880 census) 355 12590 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +730 -9606 +N/A -3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LADY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 125 5531 0.002 22
Indiana 108 7540 0.002 18
California 95 26277 0.000 3
Kentucky 77 5817 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 68 22945 0.001 6
Top States for LADY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Tennessee 125 5531 0.002 22
Kentucky 77 5817 0.002 19
Indiana 108 7540 0.002 18
Kansas 31 11337 0.001 12
Oklahoma 35 11323 0.001 10

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

Classification and Origin of LADY

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

Ethnic distribution of LADY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 984 90.69
Black/African American 45 4.15
White (Hispanic) 29 2.67
Asian/Pacific 12 1.11
Mixed Race 8 0.74
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.65

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

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

Meaning of LADY in historical publications

LADY. There are several surnames of which this word forms part, and for â– which I cannot account, except upon the supposition that they are derived from some oath or invocation involving the name of " Our Lady," the Virgin Mary. They are Ladyman, Tiplady, Taplady, Toplady, and, strangest of all, Godlovemilady ! Shakelady is a known corruption of Shackerley. In the H.E. we have a Roger Ducedame or Sweetlady, and the Registrar General's cabinet of curiosities shows us a recent or existing Lovelady.

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 LADY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LADY.

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 LADY

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