The LYDON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,990	7692	0.001	15
United States (1880 census)	403	11433	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+3587	+3741	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	119	12213	0.001	7
United Kingdom	1,228	4424	0.003	27

Top States for LYDON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,060	785	0.017	167
Pennsylvania	409	3622	0.003	33
California	374	7134	0.001	11
New York	358	5276	0.002	19
Illinois	219	5790	0.002	18
Top States for LYDON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,060	785	0.017	167
New Hampshire	72	2524	0.006	58
Maine	55	3413	0.004	43
Rhode Island	35	4400	0.003	33
Pennsylvania	409	3622	0.003	33

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

Classification and Origin of LYDON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	48	1.2
Mixed Race	26	0.65
Asian/Pacific	19	0.48
Black/African American	16	0.4
Native American/Alaskan	13	0.33
White (Caucasian)	3,868	96.94

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

Similar names to LYDON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LYDON.

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.