The LAKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	30,924	1035	0.011	115
United States (1880 census)	9,210	652	0.018	184
Change since 1880	+21714	-383	-0.007	-69
Other Countries
Australia	1,774	918	0.011	109
United Kingdom	8,456	721	0.018	184

Top States for LAKE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	2,398	1363	0.007	71
Michigan	2,375	385	0.024	239
Florida	2,090	961	0.013	131
New York	1,719	1038	0.009	91
Ohio	1,625	795	0.014	143
Top States for LAKE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	2,375	385	0.024	239
Wyoming	115	426	0.023	233
Vermont	139	715	0.023	228
Montana	202	448	0.022	224
Maine	276	926	0.022	216

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

Classification and Origin of LAKE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	557	1.8
Mixed Race	451	1.46
Native American/Alaskan	353	1.14
Asian/Pacific	220	0.71
White (Caucasian)	25,840	83.56
Black/African American	3,501	11.32

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

Similar names to LAKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAKE.

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.