Lathrop
loc · Latin script
Meaning: probably a variant of Lothrop
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lathrop is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- MOMacao
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Layerthorpein(measured from records)
- Old Norseleirr(measured from records)
probably a variant of Lothrop. Alternatively, it may be a habitational name from Layerthorpe in York, which is named from Old Norse leirr ‘clay’ or leira ‘clayey place’ -I- porp ‘outlying farmstead’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lathrop counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8.1K | Lathrop | 367 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Lathrop | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Lathrop | 49 |
| MO Macao | — | — | Lathrop | 1 |
| CN China | — | — | Lathrop | 4 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 150 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hope Lathropb. 1671(1671-1734)
- Samuel Lathropb. 1772USAmerican politician (1772-1846)
- Barbour Lathropb. 1847USAmerican philanthropist (1847–1927)
- Thomas Lathrop Stedmanb. 1853USAmerican medical doctor and author
- Charles Lathrop Packb. 1857USAmerican businessman and philatelist (1857-1937)
- William Langson Lathropb. 1859USAmerican artist (1859-1938)
- Abbie Lathropb. 1868USAmerican rodent breeder (1868–1918)
- Lathrop Brownb. 1883USAmerican politician (1883-1959)
- Philip H. Lathropb. 1912USAmerican cinematographer (1912-1995)
- Jack Lathropb. 1913USAmerican vocalist and guitarist (1913–1987)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.1K | #4,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.9K | #4,130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.5K | #4,576 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lathrop come from?
- probably a variant of Lothrop. Alternatively, it may be a habitational name from Layerthorpe in York, which is named from Old Norse leirr ‘clay’ or leira ‘clayey place’ -I- porp ‘outlying farmstead’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lathrop mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably a variant of Lothrop.
- In which country does Lathrop have the most bearers?
- Lathrop is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled lathrop.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lathropThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lathrop”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.