Lerner Surname
Approximately 24,803 people bear this surname
Lerner Surname Definition:
(German) One who came from Lern (to learn), in Germany.
Read More About This SurnameLerner Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 13,361 | 1:27,128 | 3,395 |
| Israel | 3,412 | 1:2,508 | 315 |
| Germany | 1,670 | 1:48,207 | 6,309 |
| Brazil | 1,467 | 1:145,927 | 5,584 |
| Canada | 822 | 1:44,824 | 5,519 |
| Argentina | 776 | 1:55,082 | 4,641 |
| Russia | 621 | 1:232,082 | 24,903 |
| England | 397 | 1:140,348 | 13,648 |
| Ukraine | 366 | 1:124,379 | 17,596 |
| France | 332 | 1:200,068 | 31,101 |
| Austria | 280 | 1:30,412 | 4,904 |
| Egypt | 244 | 1:376,786 | 23,402 |
| Hungary | 160 | 1:61,352 | 6,374 |
| Sweden | 81 | 1:121,565 | 8,649 |
| Australia | 75 | 1:359,943 | 30,133 |
| Croatia | 65 | 1:65,055 | 11,867 |
| Spain | 52 | 1:899,078 | 35,195 |
| Belgium | 49 | 1:234,625 | 29,441 |
| Peru | 46 | 1:690,959 | 16,320 |
| Mexico | 40 | 1:3,103,155 | 23,265 |
| Venezuela | 39 | 1:774,464 | 12,743 |
| Moldova | 37 | 1:96,253 | 11,707 |
| Estonia | 35 | 1:37,766 | 7,217 |
| Thailand | 32 | 1:2,207,448 | 250,768 |
| Switzerland | 30 | 1:273,764 | 22,252 |
| Uzbekistan | 27 | 1:1,145,524 | 21,534 |
| Poland | 26 | 1:1,461,875 | 85,446 |
| South Africa | 21 | 1:2,579,891 | 103,459 |
| Uruguay | 18 | 1:190,653 | 15,539 |
| Chile | 18 | 1:978,693 | 19,774 |
| Kazakhstan | 18 | 1:982,361 | 58,740 |
| Netherlands | 15 | 1:1,125,812 | 68,885 |
| Scotland | 14 | 1:382,416 | 16,471 |
| Belarus | 13 | 1:730,851 | 59,297 |
| Paraguay | 12 | 1:603,062 | 7,396 |
| Norway | 12 | 1:428,524 | 37,411 |
| Panama | 9 | 1:434,695 | 8,518 |
| Italy | 8 | 1:7,644,586 | 115,463 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 6 | 1:995,442 | 57,680 |
| Guatemala | 5 | 1:3,216,534 | 7,141 |
| Philippines | 5 | 1:20,247,645 | 262,352 |
| Wales | 5 | 1:618,906 | 25,852 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Czechia | 5 | 1:2,126,694 | 115,412 |
| India | 4 | 1:191,766,346 | 1,073,940 |
| Bolivia | 4 | 1:2,654,108 | 7,945 |
| Dominican Republic | 4 | 1:2,608,233 | 20,941 |
| Angola | 4 | 1:6,747,304 | 6,999 |
| Ecuador | 3 | 1:5,301,949 | 30,184 |
| Costa Rica | 3 | 1:1,593,356 | 8,177 |
| Finland | 3 | 1:1,832,234 | 57,803 |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 1:3,216,374 | 32,290 |
| Slovakia | 3 | 1:1,778,817 | 104,392 |
| Romania | 2 | 1:10,038,935 | 80,612 |
| Turkey | 2 | 1:38,910,711 | 171,901 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Lithuania | 2 | 1:1,517,294 | 35,813 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Greece | 2 | 1:5,539,895 | 129,142 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 2 | 1:55,188 | 6,229 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Abkhazia | 1 | 1:242,865 | 5,354 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| French Polynesia | 1 | 1:280,805 | 7,211 |
| Qatar | 1 | 1:2,357,999 | 76,403 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:99,202 | 6,620 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 9 | 1:2,708,374 | 73,770 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 133 | 1:377,584 | 28,378 |
Lerner (158) may also be a first name.
Lerner Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
(German) One who came from Lern (to learn), in Germany.
(from an ancestor's occupation) Lerner means “student” in Yiddish or German. In eastern Europe a young husband devoted all of his days to study Torah, while his wife or other members of the family took care of making a living.
User-submitted Reference
A German-Yiddish surname meaning either 'student' or 'scholar'.
- raychikLerner Demographics
Average Lerner Salary in
United States
$54,867 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Lerner Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lerner Come From? nationality or country of origin
Lerner (Russian: Лернер) is most common in The United States. It can also occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Lerner? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lerner is the 21,917th most commonly used surname worldwide. It is borne by approximately 1 in 293,817 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 65 percent of Lerner are found; 56 percent are found in North America and 55 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Lerner is also the 730,165th most frequent first name at a global level, held by 158 people.
It is most commonly occurring in The United States, where it is carried by 13,361 people, or 1 in 27,128. In The United States Lerner is primarily concentrated in: New York, where 24 percent live, California, where 14 percent live and Florida, where 10 percent live. Not including The United States this last name is found in 84 countries. It is also found in Israel, where 14 percent live and Germany, where 7 percent live.
Lerner Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Lerner has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname rose 10,046 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 4,411 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Scotland it rose 1,400 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Lerner Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is chiefly Orthodox (76%) in Russia and Orthodox (86%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those bearing the Lerner surname are 42.67% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 95.9% registered with the political party.
The amount Lerner earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 1.94% more than the national average, earning 352,780 kr per year; in Peru they earn 895.2% more than the national average, earning S/. 192,920 per year; in South Africa they earn 91.09% less than the national average, earning R 21,168 per year; in United States they earn 27.16% more than the national average, earning $54,867 USD per year and in Canada they earn 26.23% more than the national average, earning $62,717 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lerner Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lerner in the Russian language | ||
| Лернер | lerner | - |
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