as a Last Name
- 8,580
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Lawless
Meaning & Origins
Scottish, Irish, and English: nickname for an unbridled and licentious man, from Middle English laghless, lawelas (a compound of late Old English lagu ‘law’ (from Old Norse) + the native suffix -l(ē)as ‘without’, ‘lacking’). Reaney suggests additionally that this name may have referred to an outlaw (i.e. one from whom the protection of the law had been withdrawn), but this seems unlikely.
| 3,582nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,580
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Lawless per capita
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