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The LAWYER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,977 7715 0.001 15
United States (1880 census) 1,360 4185 0.003 27
Change since 1880 +2617 -3530 -0.002 -12
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 25 27994 0 1
Top States for LAWYER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 491 3969 0.003 26
Illinois 305 4307 0.002 25
Indiana 298 2604 0.005 49
Pennsylvania 267 5746 0.002 22
Texas 227 8129 0.001 11
Top States for LAWYER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 75 1486 0.012 123
Indiana 298 2604 0.005 49
Alaska 19 5124 0.003 30
South Carolina 106 4535 0.003 26
Wyoming 13 5627 0.003 26

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

Classification and Origin of LAWYER

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of LAWYER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 534 13.43
White (Hispanic) 48 1.21
Mixed Race 44 1.11
Native American/Alaskan 43 1.08
Asian/Pacific 21 0.53
White (Caucasian) 3,287 82.65

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

Meaning of LAWYER in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAWYER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAWYER.

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 LAWYER

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