How common is the last name Lake?

31,187 people in the United States have the last name Lake, about 1 in 9,584. It ranks #1,108 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census.

last name

LAKE

#1,108

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
31,187
About
1 in 9,584
This common or more
40.9%
Who bears it

Of the 31,187 people with the last name Lake, 77.9% reported their origin as White, 12.1% as Black and 4.4% as two or more races. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Either side of Lake

#1,106 Castellanos · 31,212#1,107 Hassan · 31,210#1,109 Cordero · 31,145#1,110 Justice · 31,110

Spelled almost the same

8 last names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lake, most common first.

#9,417 Lakey · 3,310#14,490 Lage · 1,980#44,477 Laake · 520#45,998 Laske · 500#46,089 Lace · 499#50,348 Lako · 449#59,100 Lakew · 370#72,089 Laks · 291

Also a first name

As a first name, Lake ranks #5,964 of 53,615, with 2,760 people. As a baby name it peaked in 2022, with 154 births. See Lake as a first name

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