Lyman

At the 2020 census, 11,387 Americans bore the surname Lyman — 3,077th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,200.

By the numbers

People: 11,387
Rank: 3,077th
How common: 1 in 26,200
Per 100,000: 3.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 86.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Black, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Lyman

Theodore Lyman (1874–1954)American physicist

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

Also a first name

Lyman has been given to 8,559 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1917. 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.