The LORD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	23,221	1399	0.009	86
United States (1880 census)	10,252	585	0.021	205
Change since 1880	+12969	-814	-0.012	-119
Other Countries
Australia	2,867	547	0.018	175
United Kingdom	11,531	518	0.025	251

Top States for LORD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	2,028	955	0.013	127
California	1,716	1824	0.005	51
Georgia	1,593	645	0.019	195
New York	1,465	1185	0.008	77
Massachusetts	1,127	731	0.018	178
Top States for LORD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	924	216	0.072	725
New Hampshire	636	213	0.051	515
Delaware	270	430	0.034	345
Vermont	177	516	0.029	291
Georgia	1,593	645	0.019	195

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

Classification and Origin of LORD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	513	2.21
Mixed Race	372	1.6
Asian/Pacific	176	0.76
Native American/Alaskan	125	0.54
White (Caucasian)	20,887	89.95
Black/African American	1,147	4.94

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

Meaning of LORD in historical publications

LORD. LORDE. A title given to monks and persons of superior rank ; the equivalent of Dominus and Dan, which signify nothing more than master. In old times a sort of sobriquet, applied to the leaders of festivities, as Christmas Lords, Lords of Misrule, kc. Le Lord, is exceedingly common in H.R.

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

A term of civil dignity, a master, ruler, the proprietor of a manor, derived from the Anglo-Saxon ord, which comes from ored, a governor, with the prefix of the letter L, le, denoting the person or place. Gaelic, ard, ord, high, lofty, the prime chief, superior. Lord has been derived from Hlaford, which is compounded of Hlaf, a loaf, and ford, to give,--a bread-giver.

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

Similar names to LORD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LORD.

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.