Last Name LAVENDER

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Meaning The lavender, a washerwoman or a washerman.
A laundress; 'Lavandiere,' French, one who washes, from the Latin, 'lavo,' to wash.
Origin English, Jewish, Dutch, Irish, Belgian

Rank 4,340 (2000 US census) 3,968 (1990 US census)
Count 7,576 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 72.66%, or 5505 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 22.62%, or 1714 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.36%, or 27 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 1.52%, or 115 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.45%, or 110 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.39%, or 105 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

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