The LANCASTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	31,686	1009	0.012	118
United States (1880 census)	7,096	847	0.014	142
Change since 1880	+24590	-162	-0.002	-24
Other Countries
Australia	2,012	805	0.012	123
United Kingdom	8,787	685	0.019	191

Top States for LANCASTER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	2,782	946	0.013	133
North Carolina	2,373	489	0.029	295
California	1,978	1682	0.006	58
Florida	1,755	1192	0.011	110
Georgia	1,303	847	0.016	159
Top States for LANCASTER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	847	528	0.030	298
North Carolina	2,373	489	0.029	295
Maine	357	724	0.028	280
Kentucky	1,073	573	0.027	265
South Carolina	1,057	632	0.026	263

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

Classification and Origin of LANCASTER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	526	1.66
Mixed Race	520	1.64
Native American/Alaskan	203	0.64
Asian/Pacific	168	0.53
White (Caucasian)	27,215	85.89
Black/African American	3,055	9.64

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

Similar names to LANCASTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANCASTER.

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.