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    The surname Lash

    A surname, carried by 6,712 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L200

    Lash: #5,206 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lash #5,206, 6,712 people Lash: #5,206 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lash #5,206, 6,712 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lash is more common than 96.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,712 people named Lash in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 45,999 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,856.

    #5,206
    rank among US surnames
    6,712
    people in 2010
    2.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -2.1%
    change since 2000 (was #4,734)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,197Roybal6,72545,910
    #5,198Zachary6,72445,917
    #5,199Somerville6,72145,937
    #5,201Orton6,72045,944
    #5,202Fife6,71945,951
    #5,203Farah6,71845,958
    #5,204Farkas6,71445,985

    Who is named Lash

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

    85% of people named Lash identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 85%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 10%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    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 Lash

    Lash has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lash?
    6,712 people in the United States had the surname Lash in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 45,999 Americans. It ranked 5,206th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lash?
    In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Lash identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lash getting more or less common?
    Less common. 6,856 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,712 in 2010, down 2.1%.