Lark

At the 2020 census, 3,577 Americans bore the surname Lark — 8,798th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 83,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,577
Rank: 8,798th
How common: 1 in 83,600
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 47.8%
Black, not Hispanic 42.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Lark

Feodor Lark (born 1997)Russian actor

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

Surnames like Lark

Also a first name

Lark has been given to 2,134 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1950. 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.