Lawless

At the 2020 census, 8,628 Americans bore the surname Lawless — 3,992nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 34,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,628
Rank: 3,992nd
How common: 1 in 34,600
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

From Middle English laweles (“lawless”), a nickname for an unrestrained and licentious man.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.8%
Black, not Hispanic 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Lawless

Lucy Lawless (born 1968)New Zealand actress
Blackie Lawless (born 1956)American heavy metal musician
Christopher Lawless (born 1995)British bicycle racer

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

Surnames like Lawless

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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.