Lateral Surname

2,746,821st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 50 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
India
Highest density in:
Cape Verde

Lateral Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lateral Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
India181:42,614,743461,117
Brazil121:17,839,528311,080
Philippines81:12,654,778228,986
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Australia11:26,995,701270,794
Cape Verde11:529,6426,792
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
France11:66,422,722504,397
Israel11:8,557,634182,558
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Lateral Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lateral Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Lateral occurs most in India. It may also occur as a variant:. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Lateral? popularity and diffusion

Lateral is the 2,746,821st most commonly occurring family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 145,750,918 people. The surname Lateral occurs predominantly in Asia, where 60 percent of Lateral reside; 36 percent reside in South Asia and 36 percent reside in Indo-South Asia.

This surname is most widely held in India, where it is held by 18 people, or 1 in 42,614,743. In India Lateral is most common in: Tamil Nadu, where 39 percent live, Andhra Pradesh, where 22 percent live and Maharashtra, where 6 percent live. Without taking into account India this last name is found in 13 countries. It is also found in Brazil, where 24 percent live and The Philippines, where 16 percent live.

Lateral Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Lateral has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Lateral last name rose 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Latteral931/
Leteral8655/
Letteral803/
Letereal800/
Letiral7125/
Letterhall714/
Leatherholt672/
Leiterholt5943/
Leiterhold598/
Losterholt591/
Leiterholdt5610/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Lateral
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