The surname Lamberton
An English place surname, carried by 1,002 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex L516
Origin
English origin
From Old English lamb (“lamb”) + burna (“stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Lamberton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,002 people named Lamberton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 308,129 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 959.
Who is named Lamberton
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Lamberton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- Two or more races 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Lamberton
Lamberton has the Soundex code L516, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L516.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Lamberton come from?
- From Old English lamb (“lamb”) + burna (“stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
- How common is the surname Lamberton?
- 1,002 people in the United States had the surname Lamberton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 308,129 Americans. It ranked 24,838th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lamberton?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lamberton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Lamberton?
- Lamberton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Lamberton getting more or less common?
- More common. 959 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,002 in 2010, up 4.5%.