Lawrense Surname

4,772,636th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 17 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Senegal

Lawrense Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Lawrense Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria71:25,306,108327,793
South Africa31:18,059,235248,362
Senegal21:7,289,6718,117
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England61:4,062,562101,150
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States211:2,391,366115,093

Lawrense (54) may also be a first name.

Lawrense Last Name Facts

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

The surname Lawrense occurs more in Nigeria more than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant:. For other possible spellings of Lawrense click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Lawrense? popularity and diffusion

The last name Lawrense is the 4,772,636th most commonly used surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 428,679,172 people. This surname is mostly found in Africa, where 76 percent of Lawrense live; 59 percent live in West Africa and 47 percent live in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 1,350,955th most prevalent first name on earth It is held by 54 people.

The surname Lawrense is most numerous in Nigeria, where it is borne by 7 people, or 1 in 25,306,108. In Nigeria Lawrense is most frequent in: Kogi, where 57 percent are found, Kaduna, where 14 percent are found and Osun, where 14 percent are found. Apart from Nigeria this last name is found in 7 countries. It also occurs in South Africa, where 18 percent are found and Senegal, where 12 percent are found.

Lawrense Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Lawrense has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Lawrense surname declined 95 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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
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  • 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 Lawrense
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