Lima

Lima is the 1,708th most common surname in the United States, shared by 20,554 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 14,500.

By the numbers

People: 20,554
Rank: 1,708th
How common: 1 in 14,500
Per 100,000: 6.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 44.6%
Hispanic or Latino 44.6%
Black, not Hispanic 6.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Lima

Adriana Lima (born 1981)Brazilian model
Rose of Lima (1586–1617)Dominican saint from Peru
Ildefons Lima (born 1979)Andorran association football player
Fernanda Lima (born 1977)Brazilian actress
José Lezama Lima (1910–1976)Cuban writer, poet
Ânderson Lima (born 1973)Brazilian association football player
Kevin Lima (born 1962)American animator and director
Lucas Lima (born 1990)Brazilian footballer

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

Surnames like Lima

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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.