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    The surname Lant

    An English place surname, carried by 574 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L530

    Lant: #38,532 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Lant #38,532, 574 people Lant: #38,532 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Lant #38,532, 574 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lant is more common than 76.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Perhaps from Middle English langet, a derivative of lang (“long”), denoting someone who lived by a long strip of ground.

    Lant 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 574 people named Lant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 537,884 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 574.

    #38,532
    rank among US surnames
    574
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #36,716)

    Who is named Lant

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

    93% of people named Lant identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lant

    Lant has the Soundex code L530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L530.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lant come from?
    Perhaps from Middle English langet, a derivative of lang (“long”), denoting someone who lived by a long strip of ground.
    How common is the surname Lant?
    574 people in the United States had the surname Lant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 537,884 Americans. It ranked 38,532nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lant?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Lant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Lant?
    Lant is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Lant getting more or less common?
    About as common. 574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 574 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.