# Lanfear (surname)

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

A surname from Cornish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Cornish |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 453 |
| US rank (2010) | 46,902 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 681,557 people |
| Change since 2000 | +20% (379 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Lamphear, Lamphere, Lanphear, Lanpher, Lanphere, Lanphier |

## Etymology

A Cornish surname, with the first element being from lann (“enclosure (religious)”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lanfear 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) | 99% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.0% |

## Similar surnames

Lanphear, Lanford, Lambert, Lombardo, Lombardi, Lombard, Lambright, Lambrecht, Lampert, Lineberry, Lamberth, Lamberson.

## 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.