Laws

Laws is the 2,512th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,976 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,400.

By the numbers

People: 13,976
Rank: 2,512th
How common: 1 in 21,400
Per 100,000: 4.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.5%
Black, not Hispanic 22.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Laws

David Laws (born 1965)British politician
Sharon Laws (1974–2017)British racing cyclist
Hubert Laws (born 1939)American flutist and saxophonist

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

Surnames like Laws

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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.