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    The surname List

    A place surname, carried by 3,814 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L230

    List: #8,623 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer List #8,623, 3,814 people List: #8,623 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez List #8,623, 3,814 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). List is more common than 94.7% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Dutch and German surname, from the noun list (“wisdom, ingenuity”). * Also as a Dutch surname, from the placename Ter List, from lis (“iris flag”). * As a Hungarian surname, Americanized from Lizst, from the noun liszt (“flour”). * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from list (“leaf”), or Slavicized from the Hungarian surname above.

    List 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 3,814 people named List in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 80,951 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,807.

    #8,623
    rank among US surnames
    3,814
    people in 2010
    1.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.2%
    change since 2000 (was #8,034)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,617Marrone3,81880,866
    #8,622Hänsel3,81580,929
    #8,623Teller3,81480,951
    #8,626Towner3,81380,972
    #8,629Zalewski3,81280,993
    #8,631Krishnan3,81081,036

    Who is named List

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

    95% of people named List identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Lists

    7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Peyton List
      American actress (born 1986)
    • John List
      American mass murderer (1925–2008)
    • Robert List
      American attorney and politician, born 1936
    • John A. List
      American economist, born 1968
    • Emanuel List
      Austrian opera singer (1888-1967)
    • Eugene List
      American musician, 1918–1985
    • Hans List
      Austrian automotive pioneer (1896-1996)

    Notable Lists come mostly from the United States (6) and Austria (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like List

    List has the Soundex code L230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L230.

    Questions

    Where does the surname List come from?
    * As a Dutch and German surname, from the noun list (“wisdom, ingenuity”). * Also as a Dutch surname, from the placename Ter List, from lis (“iris flag”). * As a Hungarian surname, Americanized from Lizst, from the noun liszt (“flour”). * As a Slovene and Serbo-Croatian surname, from list…
    How common is the surname List?
    3,814 people in the United States had the surname List in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 80,951 Americans. It ranked 8,623rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname List?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named List identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named List?
    Peyton List, American actress (born 1986), followed by John List.
    Where is the surname List most common?
    Wikidata records people named List in the United States and Austria.
    What type of surname is List?
    List is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname List getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,807 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,814 in 2010, up 0.2%.