The LANIER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	20,181	1625	0.007	75
United States (1880 census)	3,178	1922	0.006	64
Change since 1880	+17003	+297	+0.001	+11
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for LANIER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,990	374	0.037	371
Georgia	2,777	369	0.034	339
Florida	2,258	922	0.014	141
Alabama	1,417	534	0.032	319
Texas	1,416	1780	0.007	68
Top States for LANIER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	2,990	374	0.037	371
Georgia	2,777	369	0.034	339
Alabama	1,417	534	0.032	319
South Carolina	772	871	0.019	192
Tennessee	808	1136	0.014	142

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

Classification and Origin of LANIER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LANIER 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.

Ethnic distribution of LANIER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	242	1.2
White (Hispanic)	228	1.13
Native American/Alaskan	83	0.41
Asian/Pacific	67	0.33
White (Caucasian)	14,090	69.82
Black/African American	5,469	27.1

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

Similar names to LANIER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LANIER.

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.