The LAMAR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,030	3010	0.004	41
United States (1880 census)	2,527	2401	0.005	51
Change since 1880	+8503	-609	-0.001	-10
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for LAMAR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	1,171	988	0.014	143
Florida	938	2347	0.006	59
California	919	3510	0.003	27
Alabama	734	1090	0.017	165
Texas	651	3703	0.003	31
Top States for LAMAR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	734	1090	0.017	165
Georgia	1,171	988	0.014	143
Mississippi	286	1544	0.010	101
Indiana	530	1527	0.009	87
Missouri	381	2061	0.007	68

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

Classification and Origin of LAMAR

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

Ethnic distribution of LAMAR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	485	4.4
Mixed Race	203	1.84
Asian/Pacific	52	0.47
Native American/Alaskan	52	0.47
White (Caucasian)	5,886	53.36
Black/African American	4,352	39.46

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

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

Similar names to LAMAR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAMAR.

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.