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The LAMB surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 58,555 511 0.022 217
United States (1880 census) 17,218 321 0.034 344
Change since 1880 +41337 -190 -0.012 -127
Other Countries
Australia 3,280 461 0.02 201
United Kingdom 18,314 300 0.04 399
Top States for LAMB by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 4,017 802 0.012 119
Texas 3,896 652 0.019 187
Florida 3,894 485 0.024 244
Ohio 3,035 379 0.027 267
Tennessee 2,616 328 0.046 460
Top States for LAMB by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 248 161 0.050 502
Tennessee 2,616 328 0.046 460
Arkansas 1,103 292 0.041 413
Kentucky 1,607 365 0.040 398
Utah 811 312 0.036 363

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

Classification and Origin of LAMB

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 954 1.63
Mixed Race 802 1.37
Asian/Pacific 340 0.58
Native American/Alaskan 334 0.57
White (Caucasian) 51,183 87.41
Black/African American 4,948 8.45

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

Meaning of LAMB in historical publications

The name was probably taken from the sign of a lamb at an inn, the young of the sheep kind; Welsh, Llamer, to skip; Gaelic, Leum. The primitive Celtic or Gaelic Lam signified armor, as a dart, a blade, or sword; hence, to lam signified to disable, injure, maim, from which we have lame and limp.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to LAMB

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAMB.

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 LAMB

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