The Lanier surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 20,181 people carried this name — #1,625 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 13,400 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 737 people named Lanier.
16 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 63 départements, most often Côte-d’Or.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
37 people named Lanier live in Switzerland.
They live in 2 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lanier.
- Langle 208 · U.S. census
- Langlo 126 · U.S. census
- Langlois 7,325 · U.S. census
- Langner 1,489 · U.S. census
- Langolf 312 · U.S. census
- Lani 310 · U.S. census
- Lanis 168 · U.S. census
- Lann 816 · U.S. census
- Lanners 537 · U.S. census
- Lannes 146 · U.S. census
- Lanni 1,329 · U.S. census
- Lanno 178 · U.S. census
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