How common is the surname Lewellyn?

1,570 people in the United States had the surname Lewellyn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,653 Americans. It ranked 17,823rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lewellyn?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Lewellyn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lewellyn getting more or less common?

More common. 1,542 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,570 in 2010, up 1.8%.

The surname Lewellyn

A surname, carried by 1,570 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lewellyn is more common than 89% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,570 people named Lewellyn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,653 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,542.

#17,823

rank among US surnames

1,570

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.8%

change since 2000 (was #16,988)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,818	Majka	1,571	196,528
#17,823	Fiorillo	1,570	196,653

Who is named Lewellyn

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

92% of people named Lewellyn identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.0% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lewellyn

Lewellyn 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 Lewellyn?: 1,570 people in the United States had the surname Lewellyn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,653 Americans. It ranked 17,823rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lewellyn?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Lewellyn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lewellyn getting more or less common?: More common. 1,542 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,570 in 2010, up 1.8%.