Lamb

At the 2020 census, 57,573 Americans bore the surname Lamb — 572nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,192.

By the numbers

People: 57,573
Rank: 572nd
How common: 1 in 5,192
Per 100,000: 19.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

1. From Middle English lamb as a nickname.<br> 2. From a short form of Lambert.<br> 3. Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Luain.<br> 4. Possibly also a translation of French agneau.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lamb described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.8%
Black, not Hispanic 8.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lamb

Willis Lamb (1913–2008)American physicist
Charles Lamb (1775–1834)British essayist, poet, antiquarian
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)British politician
Lady Caroline Lamb (1785–1828)English writer
Mary Lamb (1764–1847)English writer, the sister and collaborator of writer Charles Lamb
Horace Lamb (1849–1934)English mathematician (*1849 – †1934)
Conor Lamb (born 1984)American politician and attorney
Joseph Lamb (1887–1960)American composer of ragtime music

People named Lamb with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lamb

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.