How common is the surname Latham?

21,277 people in the United States had the surname Latham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,511 Americans. It ranked 1,693rd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Latham?

Milton Latham, American politician (1827–1882), followed by Tom Latham.

Where is the surname Latham most common?

Wikidata records people named Latham in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 1 other country.

How do you pronounce Latham?

Latham is /ˈleɪ.θəm/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Latham getting more or less common?

More common. 20,935 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,277 in 2010, up 1.6%.

The surname Latham

A Norse place surname, carried by 21,277 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈleɪ.θəm/ 2 syllables Soundex L350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Latham is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

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

Latham is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 21,277 people named Latham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,511 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 20,935.

#1,693

rank among US surnames

21,277

people in 2010

7.2

per 100,000 Americans

+1.6%

change since 2000 (was #1,572)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,684	Brantley	21,395	14,431
#1,685	Sheets	21,384	14,438
#1,687	Doss	21,366	14,450
#1,689	Stiles	21,357	14,456
#1,690	Willard	21,352	14,460
#1,691	Waddell	21,301	14,494
#1,692	Stanford	21,295	14,498

Who is named Latham

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

79% of people named Latham identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 79%
Black (not Hispanic) 16%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lathams

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Milton Latham
American politician (1827–1882)
Tom Latham
American politician, born 1948
Mark Latham
Australian politician (born 1961)
Robert Gordon Latham
British ethnologist and philologist (1812-1888)
Christine Latham
Association footballer, born 1981
John Latham
Australian judge and politician; 5th Chief Justice of Australia (1877-1964)

Notable Lathams come mostly from the United States (2), Australia (2) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Lathem

Surnames that sound like Latham

Latham has the Soundex code L350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L350.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Latham come from?: Habitational surname from any of various places in northern England, from the dative plural form of Old Norse hlaða (“storehouse, barn”).
How common is the surname Latham?: 21,277 people in the United States had the surname Latham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,511 Americans. It ranked 1,693rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Latham?: In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Latham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Latham?: Milton Latham, American politician (1827–1882), followed by Tom Latham.
Where is the surname Latham most common?: Wikidata records people named Latham in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and 1 other country.
How do you pronounce Latham?: Latham is /ˈleɪ.θəm/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Latham?: Latham is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Latham getting more or less common?: More common. 20,935 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,277 in 2010, up 1.6%.
What are other spellings of Latham?: Lathem.