# Latham (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/latham/  
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 Old Norse.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norse |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 21,277 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,693 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 14,511 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.6% (20,935 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈleɪ.θəm/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Lathem |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from any of various places in northern England, from the dative plural form of Old Norse hlaða (“storehouse, barn”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Latham 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) | 79% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 16% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Latham in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Canada.

## People named Latham

- Milton Latham, American politician (1827–1882)
- Tom Latham, American politician
- Mark Latham, Australian politician (born 1961)
- Robert Gordon Latham, British ethnologist and philologist (1812-1888)
- Christine Latham, Association footballer
- John Latham, Australian judge and politician; 5th Chief Justice of Australia (1877-1964)

## Similar surnames

Leatham, Lathem, Lathan, Latona, Layton, Lawton, Litton, Lydon, Louden, Litwin, Lowden, Lattin.

## 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.