Latham

At the 2020 census, 20,465 Americans bore the surname Latham — 1,715th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,600.

By the numbers

People: 20,465
Rank: 1,715th
How common: 1 in 14,600
Per 100,000: 6.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

Habitational surname from any of various places in northern England, from the dative plural form of Old Norse hlaða (“storehouse, barn”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.1%
Black, not Hispanic 15.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Latham

John Latham (1740–1837)English physician, naturalist and author
Milton Latham (1827–1882)American politician
Tom Latham (born 1948)American politician
Louise Latham (1922–2018)American actress, editor
Mark Latham (born 1961)Australian politician
Robert Gordon Latham (1812–1888)British ethnologist and philologist
Tom Latham (born 1923)New Zealand cricketer
Christopher Latham (born 1994)cyclist

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

Surnames like Latham

Also a first name

Latham has been given to 594 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2015. 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.