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The LAWAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 727 30352 0 3
United States (1880 census) -1 139917 0 0
Change since 1880 +728 +109565 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 5 144609 0 0
United Kingdom 595 7834 0.001 13
Top States for LAWAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 106 13689 0.001 5
Maryland 93 5636 0.002 18
New York 76 22038 0.000 4
Georgia 69 8362 0.001 8
Illinois 64 18698 0.001 5
Top States for LAWAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maryland 93 5636 0.002 18
Rhode Island 18 7720 0.002 17
Washington DC 9 5293 0.002 16
Georgia 69 8362 0.001 8
New Jersey 60 14875 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of LAWAL

Region of origin: Africa

Country of origin: Nigeria

Language of origin: Yoruba

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 676 92.98
Mixed Race 25 3.44
White (Caucasian) 12 1.65
White (Hispanic) 6 0.83
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of LAWAL in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAWAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAWAL.

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 LAWAL

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