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    The surname Landrum

    A surname, carried by 12,026 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L536

    Landrum: #2,981 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Landrum #2,981, 12,026 people Landrum: #2,981 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Landrum #2,981, 12,026 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Landrum is more common than 98.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 12,026 people named Landrum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 25,673 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,851.

    #2,981
    rank among US surnames
    12,026
    people in 2010
    4.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.5%
    change since 2000 (was #2,790)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,972Bethea12,06125,599
    #2,973Reinhardt12,05725,607
    #2,974Sam12,05325,616
    #2,975Guo12,04825,626
    #2,976Littlejohn12,04725,628
    #2,977Carlin12,03525,654
    #2,978Kimbrough12,03425,656

    Who is named Landrum

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

    73% of people named Landrum identified as white (not Hispanic), 21% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 73%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 21%
    • Two or more races 2.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • 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 Landrum

    Landrum has the Soundex code L536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L536.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Landrum?
    12,026 people in the United States had the surname Landrum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,673 Americans. It ranked 2,981st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Landrum?
    In the 2010 Census, 73% of people named Landrum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 21% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Landrum getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,851 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,026 in 2010, up 1.5%.