# Lummis (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lummis/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 255 |
| US rank (2010) | 75,564 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,210,767 people |
| Change since 2000 | -13.3% (294 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Variant of Loomis.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lummis in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.0% |
| Two or more races | 2.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lummis in the United States.

## People named Lummis

- Cynthia Lummis, American politician (born 1954)
- Dayton Lummis, American actor (1903-1988)
- Charles Fletcher Lummis, American historian, photographer, and activist (1859–1928)
- Elizabeth F. Ellet, American writer, poet, translator (1818–1877)

## Similar surnames

Lummus, Long, Lynch, Lyons, Lang, Lange, Lemus, Liang, Link, Leung, Loomis, Luong.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.