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    The surname Lyday

    A surname, carried by 1,055 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L300

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lyday is more common than 85.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,055 people named Lyday in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 292,650 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,026.

    #23,920
    rank among US surnames
    1,055
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #23,207)

    Who is named Lyday

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

    77% of people named Lyday identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Two or more races 5.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lyday

    Lyday has the Soundex code L300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lyday?
    1,055 people in the United States had the surname Lyday in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 292,650 Americans. It ranked 23,920th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lyday?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Lyday identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lyday getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,026 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,055 in 2010, up 2.8%.