Lavin

6,251 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lavin in the 2020 census, making it the 5,387th most common in the country. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,251
Rank: 5,387th
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

English metronymic surname from the medieval female given name Lavina, from Latin Lavinia.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.5%
Hispanic or Latino 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Surnames like Lavin

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.