Lord

22,488 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lord in the 2020 census, making it the 1,560th most common in the country. That is about one person in 13,300.

By the numbers

People: 22,488
Rank: 1,560th
How common: 1 in 13,300
Per 100,000: 7.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 84.7%
Black, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lord

Jon Lord (1941–2012)English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player
Jack Lord (1920–1998)American actor
Peter Lord (born 1953)British animator
Marjorie Lord (1918–2015)actress from the United States
Walter Lord (1917–2002)American author
Rebecca Lord (born 1973)French pornographic actress
Quinn Lord (born 1999)Canadian actor
Albert Lord (1912–1991)American academic

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

Surnames like Lord

Also a first name

Lord has been given to 678 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2021. 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.