# Lacks (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lacks/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,082 |
| US rank (2010) | 23,485 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 285,347 people |
| Change since 2000 | -0.9% (1,092 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lacks in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 72% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 24% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 2.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lacks in the United States.

## People named Lacks

- Henrietta Lacks, American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line (1920–1951)

## Similar surnames

Loucks, Lacasse, Lakes, Leaks, Lake, Lacy, Lackey, Laws, Lack, Lach, Lauck, Lass.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.