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    The surname Lamey

    A surname, carried by 1,178 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L500

    Lamey: #22,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lamey #22,012, 1,178 people Lamey: #22,012 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lamey #22,012, 1,178 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lamey is more common than 86.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,178 people named Lamey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 262,093 Americans. That is down 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,321.

    #22,012
    rank among US surnames
    1,178
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -10.8%
    change since 2000 (was #19,059)

    Who is named Lamey

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

    86% of people named Lamey identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 86%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 8.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lamey

    Lamey has the Soundex code L500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lamey?
    1,178 people in the United States had the surname Lamey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,093 Americans. It ranked 22,012th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lamey?
    In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Lamey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lamey getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,321 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,178 in 2010, down 11%.