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The LUM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,074 4042 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 714 7256 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +7360 +3214 +0.002 +16
Other Countries
Australia 443 3586 0.003 27
United Kingdom 137 20546 0 3
Top States for LUM by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 2,840 1249 0.008 84
Hawaii 1,615 17 0.133 1,333
New York 708 2952 0.004 37
Texas 291 7103 0.001 14
Florida 212 9576 0.001 13
Top States for LUM by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 1,615 17 0.133 1,333
California 2,840 1249 0.008 84
Nevada 162 1565 0.008 81
Delaware 62 2471 0.008 79
New York 708 2952 0.004 37

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

Classification and Origin of LUM

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 LUM 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 LUM in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 718 8.89
White (Hispanic) 247 3.06
Black/African American 113 1.4
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.21
Asian/Pacific 5,461 67.64
White (Caucasian) 1,518 18.8

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

Meaning of LUM in historical publications

LUM. A woody valley,- a deep pit. Halliwell.

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 LUM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUM.

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 LUM

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