as a Last Name
- 35,903
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Lancaster
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from Lancaster in northwestern England, named in Old English as ‘Roman fort on the Lune’, from the Lune river, on which it stands, + Old English cæster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’). The river name is probably British, perhaps related to Gaelic slán ‘healthy’, ‘salubrious’.
| 977th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 35,903
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Lancaster per capita
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