The Lathrop surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,057 people carried this name — #4,408 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 36,600 people counted. That is up 2% from 7,936 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Lathrop surname

As an English and Welsh surname

Bardsley classes it as a local name, from where the family lived: ‘of Lowthorp’.

His entry covers Lathrop and Lathrope.

From Charles W. Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances (London: Henry Frowde, 1901), p. 470 · public domain.

In the first U.S. census, 1790

147 families named Lathrop, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 853 people lived in those households, 5.8 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 7 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Connecticut 65
Massachusetts 48
New York 14
Vermont 9
New Hampshire 7
South Carolina 2
Pennsylvania 1
North Carolina 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 249 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Lathrop in American newspapers,
1900–1909.

Newspaper page from The Daily Ardmoreite carrying the name Lathrop
The Daily Ardmoreite 1909-06-07
Newspaper page from The Mirror And Farmer carrying the name Lathrop
The Mirror And Farmer 1909-09-23
Newspaper page from The Scranton Tribune carrying the name Lathrop
The Scranton Tribune 1900-11-27

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

In print

Lathrop in Australian newspapers,
1820s–1960s.

842 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lathrop. The most, 185, date from the 1910s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Tasmania, at 1.7 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 253
Victoria 172
Tasmania 134
Queensland 108
Western Australia 87
South Australia 83
ACT (Canberra) 2

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lathrop.

Who carried it

People named Lathrop,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Samuel Lathrop d. 1701
  • Ruth Lathrop d. 1750
  • Richard Harold Lathrop d. 2023 · university teacher
  • Sarah Learned 1607–1652
  • Thomas Lathrop 1612–1707
  • Mark Lathrop 1617–1685

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Lathrop,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States697 records

697 records of the Lathrop name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 243
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 150
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 150
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 94
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 37
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 19
  • Sacramento County historic burials 4
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Howard T. Lathrop

    Born 1920 in Connecticut. Enlisted 1942 at Hartford; driver from Fairfield County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Mountainview Cemetery, New Fairfield, Connecticut.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Sara Lathrop

    Arrived at New York in 1867 aboard the Nebraska from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 37; matron. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Lyle Forrest Lathrop

    U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War. Born 1931, died 1997; buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minnesota.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 697 records for Lathrop in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

Canada7 records

7 records of the Lathrop name in Canada
  • Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 5
  • Canadian Virtual War Memorial 1
  • War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead 1
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Fannie Lathrop

    Died 1940 in River Philip, Cumberland, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
  2. A Canadian First World War grave register card for a soldier who died of wounds in 1917
    Example: Canadian war grave register, 1917
    War record Murrell Lathrop

    Died in service in 1918.

    Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
  3. A marriage entry in the civil register of Tilburg, 1911
    Example: marriage register, 1911
    Marriage record James A. Lathrop

    Married 1872 in Queens, Nova Scotia.

    Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.

Showing 3 of 7 records for Lathrop in Canada.

Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0); Canadian First World War circumstances-of-death register (scan by Scottgraham87 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0); Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain).

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