The surname Lemus
A surname, carried by 27,079 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L520
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 27,079 people named Lemus in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 11,402 Americans. That is up 63% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,583.
Who is named Lemus
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Lemus identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.8% as white (not Hispanic).
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
- White (not Hispanic) 3.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
- Two or more races 0.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%
Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Lemus 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 Lemus?
- 27,079 people in the United States had the surname Lemus in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 11,402 Americans. It ranked 1,297th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lemus?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lemus identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.8% as white (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Lemus getting more or less common?
- More common. 16,583 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 27,079 in 2010, up 63%.