The LAVENDER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,576	4340	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	1,376	4146	0.003	28
Change since 1880	+6200	-194	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	815	1989	0.005	50
United Kingdom	3,004	2061	0.007	65

Top States for LAVENDER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	752	3290	0.004	36
Georgia	696	1635	0.009	85
Alabama	628	1263	0.014	141
Florida	500	4389	0.003	31
California	464	6481	0.001	14
Top States for LAVENDER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	628	1263	0.014	141
Georgia	696	1635	0.009	85
Tennessee	394	2285	0.007	69
South Carolina	238	2674	0.006	59
Delaware	41	3601	0.005	52

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

Classification and Origin of LAVENDER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	115	1.52
Mixed Race	110	1.45
White (Hispanic)	105	1.39
Asian/Pacific	27	0.36
White (Caucasian)	5,505	72.66
Black/African American	1,714	22.62

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

Meaning of LAVENDER in historical publications

A laundress; Lavandière, French, one who washes, from the Latin, lavo, to wash.

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

LAVENDER. This Is one of the numerous instances occurring in our family nomenclature of a name's 'not meaning what it says.' As we have many surnames derived from the vegetable kingdom, this might well be associated with the wellknown garden herb ; but it comes from an entirely different source. The obsolete French word larandicr, awasher-wirt??, is its real parent ; and as lavanderie, wash-house, has become laundry, so has this surname become further corrupted to Launder and Lander.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to LAVENDER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAVENDER.

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.