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The LAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,868 10294 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) -1 116600 0 0
Change since 1880 +2869 +106306 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 569 2853 0.003 35
United Kingdom 1,841 3167 0.004 40
Top States for LAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,276 2230 0.004 38
New York 365 4761 0.002 19
New Jersey 136 6476 0.002 16
Illinois 99 12090 0.001 8
Florida 91 16969 0.001 6
Top States for LAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,276 2230 0.004 38
Oregon 77 5089 0.002 23
New York 365 4761 0.002 19
New Jersey 136 6476 0.002 16
Washington 73 8919 0.001 12

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

Classification and Origin of LAL

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 LAL 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 LAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 455 15.86
White (Caucasian) 168 5.86
White (Hispanic) 59 2.06
Black/African American 51 1.78
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.66
Asian/Pacific 2,116 73.78

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

Meaning of LAL in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAL.

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 LAL

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