The surname Lawhorn
A surname, carried by 5,465 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L650
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,465 people named Lawhorn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,495 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,418.
#6,248
rank among US surnames
5,465
people in 2010
1.9
per 100,000 Americans
+0.9%
change since 2000 (was #5,852)
Who is named Lawhorn
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
77% of people named Lawhorn identified as white (not Hispanic), 18% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 77%
- Black (not Hispanic) 18%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Lawhorn
Lawhorn has the Soundex code L650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L650.
Questions
- How common is the surname Lawhorn?
- 5,465 people in the United States had the surname Lawhorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,495 Americans. It ranked 6,248th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lawhorn?
- In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Lawhorn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Lawhorn getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,418 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,465 in 2010, up 0.9%.