Lamont

Lamont is the 5,293rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,359 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,359
Rank: 5,293rd
How common: 1 in 47,000
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 80.2%
Black, not Hispanic 8.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lamont

Ned Lamont (born 1954)Governor of Connecticut since 2019
Norman Lamont (born 1942)British politician
Peter Lamont (1929–2020)art director
Charles Lamont (1895–1993)American filmmaker
Michèle Lamont (born 1957)Canadian sociologist
Molly Lamont (1910–2001)British actress

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

Surnames like Lamont

Also a first name

Lamont has been given to 24,189 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1972. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.