Lykes is used as a family name or surname in United States. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Lykes
No. of characters: 5
Origin: United States
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Lykes

How popular is Lykes?

Lykes is common in United States.

Lykes is ranked 277751 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Lykes bearers increased by 0.3289474 per cent in 2010 US census to 915 since 2000, the surname slipped by 1164 spots and ranked at 26630. The last name was found in around 3 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
Black 65.79 68.09
White 29.29 28.73
Others 2.62 2.08
Hispanic or Latino 1.42 0.55
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.87 0
Lykes is not so popular last name but still a prevalent surname concentrated mainly in United States which may be its originating country too. Around 1107 people have been found who wears Lykes as their family name. Few people around the world have Lykes as their surname. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
201,317 England2
147,165 Czech Republic2
29,046 Japan1
24,771 Colombia1
897,276 Russia1
448,262 Canada1
Countries with thousands of Lykes:
27,585 United States1,099

Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Thomas Lykes worked as mechanic and hailed from Great Britain. During the great famine, 30 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Montezuma and arrived on September 17, 1846. Jonathan Lykes (20) Spinner, are other Lykes that migrated to US.

Lykes Namesakes

  • Arnell Lykes, Warren Sapp's brother
  • Parnell Lykes, Warren Sapp's brother
  • Theron Touché Lykes, Actor

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