Lumpkin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Lamb 1 and 2 (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lumpkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 9,307 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Lumpkin is also written Лампкин in Cyrillic.
- USUnited States1 in 36K(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 780as Lampkin
- GYGuyana1 in 11Kas 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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
9,307 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lumpkin in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic
(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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Lumpkin is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,307 | 1 in 36K | 9.3K | Lampkin | 336 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Lampkin | 83 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Lampkin | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Lampkin | 38 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Lampkin | 2 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 130as Lampkin | 1 in 780 | 130 | — | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 66as Lampkin | 1 in 11K | 66 | — | 2 |
| BZ Belize | #154 | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Lampkin | 1 |
| GD Grenada | — | 7as Lampkin | 1 in 16K | 7 | — | 1 |
9,307 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling lumpkin. 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)
- Alva M. Lumpkinb. 1886USAmerican politician (1886–1941)
- Ginuwineb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lumpkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.3 thousand people named Lumpkin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lampkin. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lumpkin most common?
- Lumpkin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying 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” — ranked 3566th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.