Lemon

14,147 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lemon in the 2020 census, making it the 2,487th most common in the country. That is about one person in 21,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,147
Rank: 2,487th
How common: 1 in 21,100
Per 100,000: 4.7

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 60.2%
Black, not Hispanic 28.5%
Hispanic or Latino 5.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lemon

Don Lemon (born 1966)American journalist and news anchor
Meadowlark Lemon (1932–2015)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Lemon

Also a first name

Lemon has been given to 1,430 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1927. 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.