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    The surname Lawing

    A surname, carried by 2,243 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L520

    Lawing: #13,525 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lawing #13,525, 2,243 people Lawing: #13,525 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lawing #13,525, 2,243 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lawing is more common than 91.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,243 people named Lawing in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 137,648 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,192.

    #13,525
    rank among US surnames
    2,243
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.3%
    change since 2000 (was #12,868)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,517Amico2,244137,587
    #13,525Peralez2,243137,648
    #13,531Stringham2,242137,710

    Who is named Lawing

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

    92% of people named Lawing identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lawing

    Lawing has the Soundex code L520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L520.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lawing?
    2,243 people in the United States had the surname Lawing in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 137,648 Americans. It ranked 13,525th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lawing?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Lawing identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lawing getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,192 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,243 in 2010, up 2.3%.