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The LAZARUS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,256 7231 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 657 7759 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +3599 +528 +0.001 +3
Other Countries
Australia 422 3740 0.003 26
United Kingdom 824 6123 0.002 18
Top States for LAZARUS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 741 2258 0.004 39
Florida 624 2954 0.004 39
California 495 5166 0.001 15
New Jersey 257 3373 0.003 31
Pennsylvania 211 6512 0.002 17
Top States for LAZARUS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 741 2258 0.004 39
Florida 624 2954 0.004 39
Washington DC 20 2685 0.003 35
New Jersey 257 3373 0.003 31
Connecticut 97 4261 0.003 28

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LAZARUS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LAZARUS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LAZARUS in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LAZARUS by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LAZARUS

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAZARUS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LAZARUS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 250 5.87
Asian/Pacific 144 3.38
White (Hispanic) 120 2.82
Mixed Race 96 2.26
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.23
White (Caucasian) 3,636 85.43

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LAZARUS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LAZARUS in historical publications

LAZARUS. A Jewish surname.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LAZARUS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAZARUS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LAZARUS

The following words are slight variants of LAZARUS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.