Latimer

9,297 people in the United States were counted with the surname Latimer in the 2020 census, making it the 3,717th most common in the country. That is about one person in 32,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,297
Rank: 3,717th
How common: 1 in 32,100
Per 100,000: 3.1

Where the name comes from

From latimer (“interpreter, speaker of Latin”), q.v. The village was named after a landowner with this name.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.6%
Black, not Hispanic 22.1%
Hispanic or Latino 6.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Latimer

Hugh Latimer (1485–1555)English bishop (circa 1485-1555)
Lewis Howard Latimer (1848–1928)American inventor
Andrew Latimer (born 1949)English musician
Ivy Latimer (born 1994)Australian actress

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

Surnames like Latimer

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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.