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The LAMA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,763 15299 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 122 27570 0 2
Change since 1880 +1641 +12271 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 27 41780 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAMA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 450 3993 0.002 24
California 298 8391 0.001 9
Florida 125 13195 0.001 8
Ohio 105 11530 0.001 9
Texas 74 18329 0.000 4
Top States for LAMA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 29 5013 0.003 28
New York 450 3993 0.002 24
Virginia 71 8962 0.001 10
Ohio 105 11530 0.001 9
California 298 8391 0.001 9

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

Classification and Origin of LAMA

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

Ethnic distribution of LAMA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 711 40.33
Asian/Pacific 590 33.47
White (Hispanic) 307 17.41
Mixed Race 128 7.26
Black/African American 27 1.53
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of LAMA in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAMA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAMA.

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 LAMA

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