The LEMON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	14,573	2283	0.005	54
United States (1880 census)	4,333	1433	0.009	87
Change since 1880	+10240	-850	-0.004	-33
Other Countries
Australia	770	2106	0.005	47
United Kingdom	2,495	2450	0.005	54

Top States for LEMON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,089	3110	0.003	32
Ohio	1,008	1458	0.009	89
Texas	979	2558	0.005	47
Florida	702	3186	0.004	44
Illinois	667	2099	0.005	54
Top States for LEMON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	414	728	0.023	229
Delaware	142	1040	0.018	181
South Carolina	606	1197	0.015	151
Utah	307	1061	0.014	137
Kansas	283	1141	0.011	105

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

Classification and Origin of LEMON

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 LEMON 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 LEMON 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 LEMON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	593	4.07
Mixed Race	242	1.66
Asian/Pacific	117	0.8
Native American/Alaskan	90	0.62
White (Caucasian)	9,312	63.9
Black/African American	4,220	28.96

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

Similar names to LEMON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEMON.

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.