How common is the surname Lingo?

2,886 people in the United States had the surname Lingo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. It ranked 11,021st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Lingo getting more or less common?

More common. 2,777 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,886 in 2010, up 3.9%.

The surname Lingo

A place surname, carried by 2,886 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lingo is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

Scottish surname, probably altered from Lingoch, a parish of Carnbee. The placename could be from the noun ling (“heather”). More at Lingo.

Lingo 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 2,886 people named Lingo in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. That is up 3.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,777.

#11,021

rank among US surnames

2,886

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.9%

change since 2000 (was #10,591)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,013	Gatti	2,888	106,906
#11,016	Juneau	2,887	106,943
#11,021	Bourassa	2,886	106,980
#11,025	Milazzo	2,885	107,018
#11,026	Feder	2,884	107,055
#11,030	Hauge	2,883	107,092

Who is named Lingo

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

84% of people named Lingo identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 84%
Black (not Hispanic) 8.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lingo

Lingo has the Soundex code L520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L520.

Questions

Where does the surname Lingo come from?: Scottish surname, probably altered from Lingoch, a parish of Carnbee. The placename could be from the noun ling (“heather”). More at Lingo.
How common is the surname Lingo?: 2,886 people in the United States had the surname Lingo in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. It ranked 11,021st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lingo?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Lingo identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.7% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Lingo?: Lingo is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Lingo getting more or less common?: More common. 2,777 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,886 in 2010, up 3.9%.