The LYMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	11,465	2875	0.004	42
United States (1880 census)	5,415	1116	0.011	108
Change since 1880	+6050	-1759	-0.007	-66
Other Countries
Australia	21	50672	0	1
United Kingdom	356	11362	0.001	8

Top States for LYMAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,190	2639	0.004	35
New York	806	2310	0.004	42
Utah	763	335	0.034	342
Massachusetts	655	1379	0.010	103
Florida	544	3779	0.003	34
Top States for LYMAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Utah	763	335	0.034	342
Vermont	196	464	0.032	322
Wyoming	102	509	0.021	207
Maine	165	1480	0.013	129
New Hampshire	155	1264	0.013	125

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

Classification and Origin of LYMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	425	3.71
Mixed Race	251	2.19
White (Hispanic)	202	1.76
Asian/Pacific	183	1.6
Native American/Alaskan	88	0.77
White (Caucasian)	10,316	89.98

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

Similar names to LYMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LYMAN.

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.