The surname Lord
An English nickname surname, carried by 23,405 people in the United States.
Pronounced /lɔɹd/ 1 syllable Soundex L630
Origin
English origin
See lord. In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus (“master of a house; lord”), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó kýrios, "the supreme one; Lord, Kyrios"), both in reference to Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾdny, "my lord; my Lord, Adonai") from אדון (ʾdwn, "lord, patron; Lord") + י- (-y, "my"), cognate with Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn, "lord; Lord, Adon"). Adonai appears in the Tanakh both directly and as a euphemism read aloud during occurrences of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH, "I Am that I Am; Jehovah"). See the usage notes below. Displaced the earlier term Drighten.
Lord is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 23,405 people named Lord in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 13,191 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 23,221.
Who is named Lord
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Lord identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Famous Lords
9 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Jack LordAmerican actor (1920-1998)
- Peter LordBritish animator, born 1953
- Walter LordAmerican author (1917–2002)
- Marjorie LordActress from the United States (1918–2015)
- Albert LordAmerican academic (1912-1991)
- William Paine LordAmerican politician (1838-1911)
- Karen LordBarbadian novelist and sociologist of religion, born 1968
- Phillips LordAmerican actor (1902-1975)
- Pauline LordAmerican actress (1890-1950)
Notable Lords come mostly from the United States (7), the United Kingdom (1) and Barbados (1).
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Lord has the Soundex code L630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L630.
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Questions
- Where does the surname Lord come from?
- See lord. In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus (“master of a house; lord”), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó…
- How common is the surname Lord?
- 23,405 people in the United States had the surname Lord in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 13,191 Americans. It ranked 1,535th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lord?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Lord identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Lord?
- Jack Lord, American actor (1920-1998), followed by Peter Lord.
- Where is the surname Lord most common?
- Wikidata records people named Lord in the United States, the United Kingdom and Barbados.
- How do you pronounce Lord?
- Lord is /lɔɹd/, one syllable.
- What type of surname is Lord?
- Lord is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
- Is the surname Lord getting more or less common?
- More common. 23,221 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,405 in 2010, up 0.8%.