The LAWLESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,833	3689	0.003	33
United States (1880 census)	2,462	2475	0.005	49
Change since 1880	+6371	-1214	-0.002	-16
Other Countries
Australia	785	2064	0.005	48
United Kingdom	2,212	2716	0.005	48

Top States for LAWLESS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	652	3000	0.003	34
Texas	579	3911	0.003	28
California	531	5414	0.002	16
Massachusetts	511	1808	0.008	80
Illinois	465	2839	0.004	37
Top States for LAWLESS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	447	1307	0.011	111
Massachusetts	511	1808	0.008	80
Kansas	160	2004	0.006	60
Rhode Island	62	2655	0.006	59
Maine	73	2869	0.006	57

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

Classification and Origin of LAWLESS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	331	3.75
White (Hispanic)	127	1.44
Mixed Race	112	1.27
Native American/Alaskan	55	0.62
Asian/Pacific	36	0.41
White (Caucasian)	8,172	92.52

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

Similar names to LAWLESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAWLESS.

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.