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The surname Lewallen

A surname, carried by 4,686 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L450

Lewallen: #7,135 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lewallen #7,135, 4,686 people Lewallen: #7,135 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lewallen #7,135, 4,686 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lewallen is more common than 95.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,686 people named Lewallen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 65,887 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,673.

#7,135
rank among US surnames
4,686
people in 2010
1.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.3%
change since 2000 (was #6,667)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#7,130Hunnicutt4,69065,831
#7,132Schulman4,68965,845
#7,133Brunelle4,68865,859
#7,135Killingsworth4,68665,887

Who is named Lewallen

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

93% of people named Lewallen identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
  • Two or more races 1.7%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lewallen

Lewallen has the Soundex code L450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L450.

Questions

How common is the surname Lewallen?
4,686 people in the United States had the surname Lewallen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 65,887 Americans. It ranked 7,135th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lewallen?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Lewallen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lewallen getting more or less common?
More common. 4,673 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,686 in 2010, up 0.3%.