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The LOTT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 25,118 1291 0.009 93
United States (1880 census) 4,846 1286 0.01 97
Change since 1880 +20272 -5 -0.001 -4
Other Countries
Australia 322 4891 0.002 20
United Kingdom 1,236 4404 0.003 27
Top States for LOTT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 3,011 880 0.014 144
Mississippi 2,644 136 0.093 929
Georgia 2,108 496 0.026 257
Florida 1,583 1342 0.010 99
California 1,320 2446 0.004 39
Top States for LOTT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 2,644 136 0.093 929
Alabama 1,196 654 0.027 269
Louisiana 1,157 565 0.026 259
Georgia 2,108 496 0.026 257
Idaho 283 572 0.022 219

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

Classification and Origin of LOTT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 399 1.59
White (Hispanic) 339 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 181 0.72
Asian/Pacific 90 0.36
White (Caucasian) 17,060 67.92
Black/African American 7,048 28.06

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

Meaning of LOTT in historical publications

LOTT. 1. A-Sax. lote, crafty ; or A-Sax. hlot, a caster of lots, a fortune-teller. 2.

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 LOTT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOTT.

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 LOTT

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