How common is the surname Luman?

1,839 people in the United States had the surname Luman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,888 Americans. It ranked 15,827th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Luman?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Luman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Luman getting more or less common?

More common. 1,666 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,839 in 2010, up 10%.

The surname Luman

A surname, carried by 1,839 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L550

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Luman is more common than 90.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,839 people named Luman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 167,888 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,666.

#15,827

rank among US surnames

1,839

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+10.4%

change since 2000 (was #16,001)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,818	Istre	1,841	167,705
#15,824	Stannard	1,840	167,796
#15,827	Bohannan	1,839	167,888
#15,833	Bouffard	1,838	167,979

Who is named Luman

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

87% of people named Luman identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 3.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.5%
Two or more races 1.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Luman

Luman has the Soundex code L550, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L550.

Questions

How common is the surname Luman?: 1,839 people in the United States had the surname Luman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 167,888 Americans. It ranked 15,827th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Luman?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Luman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Luman getting more or less common?: More common. 1,666 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,839 in 2010, up 10%.