How common is the surname Lyden?

1,571 people in the United States had the surname Lyden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,528 Americans. It ranked 17,818th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lyden?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lyden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lyden getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,571 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Lyden

A surname, carried by 1,571 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L350

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lyden is more common than 89% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,571 people named Lyden in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,528 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,574.

#17,818

rank among US surnames

1,571

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #16,729)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,809	Treanor	1,572	196,403
#17,818	Majka	1,571	196,528
#17,823	Fiorillo	1,570	196,653

Who is named Lyden

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

95% of people named Lyden identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
Two or more races 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lyden

Lyden has the Soundex code L350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L350.

Questions

How common is the surname Lyden?: 1,571 people in the United States had the surname Lyden in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,528 Americans. It ranked 17,818th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lyden?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lyden identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lyden getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,574 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,571 in 2010, down 0.2%.