Last Name LUM

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Chinese, Hungarian

Rank	4,042 (2000 US census)	5,982 (1990 US census)

Count	8,074 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

18.8%, or 1518 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.4%, or 113 total occurrences, as black,
67.64%, or 5461 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.21%, or 17 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
8.89%, or 718 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
3.06%, or 247 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

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...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...