The surname Lightsey
A surname, carried by 2,527 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L232
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,527 people named Lightsey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 122,179 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,497.
#12,303
rank among US surnames
2,527
people in 2010
0.9
per 100,000 Americans
+1.2%
change since 2000 (was #11,547)
Who is named Lightsey
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Lightsey identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 79%
- Black (not Hispanic) 17%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Lightsey
Lightsey has the Soundex code L232, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L232.
Questions
- How common is the surname Lightsey?
- 2,527 people in the United States had the surname Lightsey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 122,179 Americans. It ranked 12,303rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lightsey?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Lightsey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Lightsey getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,497 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,527 in 2010, up 1.2%.