Lear

7,312 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lear in the 2020 census, making it the 4,700th most common in the country. That is about one person in 40,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,312
Rank: 4,700th
How common: 1 in 40,900
Per 100,000: 2.5

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.5%
Black, not Hispanic 5.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Lear

Edward Lear (1812–1888)British artist, illustrator, author and poet
Amanda Lear (born 1939)French singer, actress, television presenter
Norman Lear (1922–2023)American television writer and producer
Evelyn Lear (1926–2012)American operatic soprano

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

Surnames like Lear

Also a first name

Lear has been given to 527 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 1920. 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.