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The LONSDALE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 741 29904 0 3
United States (1880 census) 235 17134 0 5
Change since 1880 +506 -12770 +N/A -2
Other Countries
Australia 624 2588 0.004 38
United Kingdom 3,115 1997 0.007 68
Top States for LONSDALE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 124 17525 0.000 4
Florida 72 20702 0.000 5
Pennsylvania 52 24209 0.000 4
Texas 41 28331 0.000 2
Iowa 35 11805 0.001 12
Top States for LONSDALE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alaska 13 7223 0.002 21
Maine 22 6405 0.002 17
Nebraska 22 11122 0.001 13
Iowa 35 11805 0.001 12
Connecticut 27 15571 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of LONSDALE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 683 92.17
Mixed Race 21 2.83
White (Hispanic) 19 2.56
Black/African American 9 1.21
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of LONSDALE in historical publications

(origin: Local) Derived from the town of Lonsdale, in Westmoreland, England, so named from the river Lon on which it is situated, and dale--the dale on the Lon.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


LONSDALE. Considerable divisions of Westmoreland and of Lancashire are so called.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LONSDALE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LONSDALE.

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 LONSDALE

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