How common is the surname Lambeth?

3,682 people in the United States had the surname Lambeth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,853 Americans. It ranked 8,891st of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Lambeth?

Lambeth is /ˈlæmbəθ/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Lambeth getting more or less common?

More common. 3,618 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,682 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Lambeth

An English place surname, carried by 3,682 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈlæmbəθ/ 2 syllables Soundex L513

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lambeth is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

The name is recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha, from Old English lamb (“lamb”) + hȳþ (“hithe, landing-place”), and in 1255 as Lambeth. Equivalent to lamb + hithe.

Lambeth 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 3,682 people named Lambeth in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,853 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,618.

#8,891

rank among US surnames

3,682

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #8,399)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,887	Bisson	3,685	83,784
#8,888	Langham	3,684	83,807
#8,890	Vereen	3,683	83,830
#8,891	Diorio	3,682	83,853
#8,894	Wentzel	3,681	83,875

Who is named Lambeth

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Lambeth identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Lambeth

Lambdin

Lambeth has the Soundex code L513, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L513.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lambeth come from?: The name is recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha, from Old English lamb (“lamb”) + hȳþ (“hithe, landing-place”), and in 1255 as Lambeth. Equivalent to lamb + hithe.
How common is the surname Lambeth?: 3,682 people in the United States had the surname Lambeth in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,853 Americans. It ranked 8,891st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lambeth?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Lambeth identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Lambeth?: Lambeth is /ˈlæmbəθ/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Lambeth?: Lambeth is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Lambeth getting more or less common?: More common. 3,618 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,682 in 2010, up 1.8%.