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    The surname Learn

    A Scottish Gaelic surname, carried by 1,663 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L650

    Learn: #17,072 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Learn #17,072, 1,663 people Learn: #17,072 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Learn #17,072, 1,663 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Learn is more common than 89.5% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish Gaelic origin

    Possibly a reduced form of McLaren.

    One of 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,663 people named Learn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 185,656 Americans. That is down 4.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,746.

    #17,072
    rank among US surnames
    1,663
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    -4.8%
    change since 2000 (was #15,413)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,063Lasko1,664185,544
    #17,072Flinchum1,663185,656
    #17,080Wile1,662185,767

    Who is named Learn

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

    96% of people named Learn identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Learn

    Learn has the Soundex code L650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L650.

    Other Scottish Gaelic surnames

    All 277 Scottish Gaelic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Learn come from?
    Possibly a reduced form of McLaren.
    How common is the surname Learn?
    1,663 people in the United States had the surname Learn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 185,656 Americans. It ranked 17,072nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Learn?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Learn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Learn getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,746 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,663 in 2010, down 4.8%.