Lawal

Lawal is the 11,608th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,588 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 115,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,588
Rank: 11,608th
How common: 1 in 115,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 94.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
White, not Hispanic 2.1%
Hispanic or Latino 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Lawal

Amina Lawal (born 1973)Nigerian sentenced to death
Muhammed Lawal (born 1981)American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
Raheem Lawal (born 1990)Nigerian footballer
Gani Lawal (born 1988)Nigerian-American basketball player
Olaseni Lawal (born 1986)Nigerian basketball player

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

Surnames like Lawal

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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.