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The LEM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,056 22706 0 4
United States (1880 census) 95 32487 0 2
Change since 1880 +961 +9781 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 19 54847 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LEM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 408 6601 0.001 12
New York 126 14528 0.001 7
Texas 64 21214 0.000 3
Massachusetts 51 14584 0.001 8
New Jersey 45 21065 0.001 5
Top States for LEM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 33 7619 0.001 12
California 408 6601 0.001 12
Iowa 28 15035 0.001 10
Massachusetts 51 14584 0.001 8
New York 126 14528 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 LEM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LEM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LEM in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LEM by picking someone at random in Arkansas than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LEM

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LEM surname.

Ethnic distribution of LEM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 654 61.93
White (Caucasian) 202 19.13
White (Hispanic) 104 9.85
Mixed Race 85 8.05
Black/African American 11 1.04
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

LEM is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LEM in historical publications

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

Similar names to LEM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEM.

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 LEM

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