How common is the surname Lemaster?

7,858 people in the United States had the surname Lemaster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,291 Americans. It ranked 4,513th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lemaster?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lemaster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lemaster getting more or less common?

More common. 7,593 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,858 in 2010, up 3.5%.

The surname Lemaster

A surname, carried by 7,858 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L523

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lemaster is more common than 97.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,858 people named Lemaster in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,291 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,593.

#4,513

rank among US surnames

7,858

people in 2010

2.7

per 100,000 Americans

+3.5%

change since 2000 (was #4,330)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,504	Heilman	7,876	39,201
#4,505	Prentice	7,874	39,211
#4,506	Swearingen	7,872	39,221
#4,507	Guess	7,871	39,226
#4,509	Quesada	7,870	39,231
#4,510	Mei	7,867	39,246
#4,512	Hyland	7,862	39,271

Who is named Lemaster

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

94% of people named Lemaster identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lemaster

Lemasters

Lemaster has the Soundex code L523, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L523.

Questions

How common is the surname Lemaster?: 7,858 people in the United States had the surname Lemaster in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,291 Americans. It ranked 4,513th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lemaster?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lemaster identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lemaster getting more or less common?: More common. 7,593 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,858 in 2010, up 3.5%.