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The surname Lawhorne

A surname, carried by 1,307 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L650

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lawhorne is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,307 people named Lawhorne in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 236,225 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,227.

#20,336
rank among US surnames
1,307
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+6.5%
change since 2000 (was #20,191)

Who is named Lawhorne

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

85% of people named Lawhorne identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 85%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
  • Two or more races 0.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lawhorne

Lawhorne 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 Lawhorne?
1,307 people in the United States had the surname Lawhorne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 236,225 Americans. It ranked 20,336th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lawhorne?
In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Lawhorne identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Lawhorne getting more or less common?
More common. 1,227 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,307 in 2010, up 6.5%.