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The LIM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 27,433 1170 0.01 102
United States (1880 census) 185 20452 0 4
Change since 1880 +27248 +19282 +N/A +98
Other Countries
Australia 4,092 363 0.025 250
United Kingdom 1,446 3891 0.003 31
Top States for LIM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 11,652 236 0.034 344
New York 2,156 777 0.011 114
New Jersey 1,441 531 0.017 171
Texas 1,413 1710 0.007 68
Illinois 1,206 1007 0.010 97
Top States for LIM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 11,652 236 0.034 344
Hawaii 308 252 0.025 254
Washington 1,181 552 0.020 200
Nevada 389 549 0.019 195
New Jersey 1,441 531 0.017 171

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

Classification and Origin of LIM

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 988 3.6
White (Caucasian) 875 3.19
White (Hispanic) 357 1.3
Black/African American 82 0.3
Native American/Alaskan 30 0.11
Asian/Pacific 25,104 91.51

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

Meaning of LIM in historical publications

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

Similar names to LIM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LIM.

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 LIM

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