Lavender

At the 2020 census, 7,312 Americans bore the surname Lavender — 4,700th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,312
Rank: 4,700th
How common: 1 in 40,900
Per 100,000: 2.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.4%
Black, not Hispanic 24.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lavender

Catherine Hardy Lavender (1930–2017)American Athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Lavender

Also a first name

Lavender has been given to 2,323 American babies as a first name since 1962, peaking in 2024. 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.