The LAIL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,111	7470	0.002	15
United States (1880 census)	225	17675	0	4
Change since 1880	+3886	+10205	+N/A	+11
Other Countries
Australia	11	81522	0	1
United Kingdom	51	26065	0	1

Top States for LAIL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,432	498	0.030	302
South Carolina	261	2446	0.007	65
Florida	150	12522	0.001	9
Virginia	137	5874	0.002	19
Georgia	110	6692	0.001	13
Top States for LAIL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,432	498	0.030	302
South Carolina	261	2446	0.007	65
Kentucky	83	5290	0.002	21
Oklahoma	68	6357	0.002	20
Virginia	137	5874	0.002	19

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

Classification and Origin of LAIL

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAIL 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.

Ethnic distribution of LAIL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	108	2.63
Mixed Race	74	1.8
Asian/Pacific	48	1.17
White (Hispanic)	35	0.85
Native American/Alaskan	10	0.24
White (Caucasian)	3,836	93.31

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

Similar names to LAIL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAIL.

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.