Lancaster

31,286 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lancaster in the 2020 census, making it the 1,104th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,554.

By the numbers

People: 31,286
Rank: 1,104th
How common: 1 in 9,554
Per 100,000: 10.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Middle English Lancaster, Loncastre, the name of the Roman fort on the River Lune, from Lune + the Old English suffix ceaster (“town”), found in many placenames.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 81.1%
Black, not Hispanic 9.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lancaster

José de Carvajal y Lancáster (1698–1754)Spanish politician

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

Surnames like Lancaster

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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.