Lumpkin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Lamb 1 and 2
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lumpkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 36K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 110Kas Lampkin
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 780as Lampkin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lumpkin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named Lampkin, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lampkin in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.
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)
from a pet form of Lamb 1 and 2.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lumpkin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Lampkin | 1 |
| US United States | — | 9,307 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Lampkin | 336 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Lampkin | 83 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Lampkin | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Lampkin | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 130as Lampkin | 1 in 780 | 130 | — | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 66as Lampkin | 1 in 11K | 66 | — | 2 |
| BZ Belize | #154 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Lampkin | 1 |
| GD Grenada | — | 7as Lampkin | 1 in 16K | 7 | — | 1 |
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; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
- Wilson Lumpkinb. 1783USAmerican politician (1783-1870)
- Joseph Henry Lumpkinb. 1799USAmerican judge (1799-1867)
- John Henry Lumpkinb. 1812USAmerican politician (1812-1860)
- Alva M. Lumpkinb. 1886USAmerican politician (1886–1941)
- Grace Lumpkinb. 1891USAmerican novelist (1891–1980)
- Sam Lumpkinb. 1908USAmerican politician
- Phil Lumpkinb. 1951USAmerican basketball player-coach (1951-2009)
- Michael D. Lumpkinb. 1964USAmerican government official
- Ginuwineb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Kregg Lumpkinb. 1984USplayer of American football
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.3K | #3,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.1K | #3,566 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.9K | #3,870 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Lumpkin mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Lamb 1 and 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lumpkin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Lampkin in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lumpkin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lumpkin is densest in the United States — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lumpkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,307 people named Lumpkin in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Lumpkin compared with other names?
- In Belize, Lumpkin is the 154th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lumpkinThe 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, “Lumpkin” — the 154th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.