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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

'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?

Meaning of LAMAR in historical publications

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

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LAMAR

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