The surname Lent
A place surname, carried by 4,341 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex L530
Origin
Two main origins: * Reduced form of Dutch van Lent, a habitational surname for someone from Lent, in Gelderland. * Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Lenth, from a personal name related to the noun Land.
Lent is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,341 people named Lent in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,123 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,281.
| Rank | Surname | People | 1 in |
|---|---|---|---|
| #7,644 | Ito | 4,344 | 71,074 |
| #7,647 | Carlsen | 4,343 | 71,090 |
| #7,650 | McGuinness | 4,342 | 71,107 |
| #7,652 | Lent | 4,341 | 71,123 |
| #7,655 | Gober | 4,339 | 71,156 |
| #7,658 | Kowal | 4,337 | 71,189 |
Who is named Lent
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
93% of people named Lent identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 93%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Lent has the Soundex code L530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L530.
Questions
- Where does the surname Lent come from?
- Two main origins: * Reduced form of Dutch van Lent, a habitational surname for someone from Lent, in Gelderland. * Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Lenth, from a personal name related to the noun Land.
- How common is the surname Lent?
- 4,341 people in the United States had the surname Lent in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,123 Americans. It ranked 7,652nd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lent?
- In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Lent identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- What type of surname is Lent?
- Lent is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Lent getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,281 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,341 in 2010, up 1.4%.