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The LUMLEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,901 10200 0.001 11
United States (1880 census) 415 11167 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +2486 +967 0 +3
Other Countries
Australia 403 3928 0.002 25
United Kingdom 2,350 2569 0.005 51
Top States for LUMLEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 225 8946 0.001 14
California 224 12147 0.001 7
Michigan 205 6422 0.002 21
Pennsylvania 179 9023 0.001 15
Missouri 178 4427 0.003 32
Top States for LUMLEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Missouri 178 4427 0.003 32
Tennessee 178 4220 0.003 31
North Dakota 16 7526 0.002 25
Iowa 72 6732 0.002 25
Kansas 66 5429 0.002 25

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

Classification and Origin of LUMLEY

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 LUMLEY 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 LUMLEY 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 LUMLEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 74 2.55
Mixed Race 53 1.83
White (Hispanic) 44 1.52
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.55
Asian/Pacific 15 0.52
White (Caucasian) 2,699 93.04

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

Meaning of LUMLEY in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic and Welsh.) The bare place, from lom, bare, and lle, a place.

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


LUMLEY. The Lumleys are of AngloSaxon descent, and have been seated in the county of Durham from the time of the Conquest. Liulph, who lived before the year 1080, is theiirst recorded ancestor. The majestic castle of Lumley, in the

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 LUMLEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LUMLEY.

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 LUMLEY

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