Last Name LAKE

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Local: At the lake, from residence thereby.
A servant. Latin, 'lego,' to send.
Origin English, Jewish, French, Irish, Maori, Belgian, Zimbabwean, South african

Rank 1,035 (2000 US census) 1,050 (1990 US census)
Count 30,924 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 83.56%, or 25840 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 11.32%, or 3501 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.71%, or 220 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.14%, or 353 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.46%, or 451 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.8%, or 557 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest baby names

 We analyzed the first names reported in the United States starting from the year 1880. There were no one character names. We did find 10 two character names.

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Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

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