Lawrence

124,450 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lawrence in the 2020 census, making it the 246th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,402.

By the numbers

People: 124,450
Rank: 246th
How common: 1 in 2,402
Per 100,000: 41.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.5%
Black, not Hispanic 24.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence (born 1990)American actress and producer
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)English writer and poet
Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958)American nuclear physicist
T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935)British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat
Martin Lawrence (born 1965)American actor and comedian
Francis Lawrence (born 1971)American director
Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)English portrait painter
Florence Lawrence (1886–1938)Canadian-American actress

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

Surnames like Lawrence

Also a first name

Lawrence has been given to 463,357 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1952. 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.