Locklear
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Locklear is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Malta it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Probably a variant of English Lockyer.
- MTMalta1 in 149◐
- USUnited States1 in 17K
- AUAustralia1 in 20K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈20K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 288 ●
- 1 in 17K ◐
across 1 country
recorded for this name
150K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Probably a variant of English Lockyer. This name occurs predominantly in NC.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 19,716 | 130K rec. | 1 in 17K | 20K | Locklear | 288 |
| AU Australia | — | 4,234 | 4.3K rec. | — | — | Locklear | 8 |
| MT Malta | #1 | 4,163 | 9.4K rec. | — | — | Locklear | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,203 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Locklear | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | 597 | 610 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 17 |
| IT Italy | — | 472 | 487 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 6 |
| IE Ireland | — | 289 | 309 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 2 |
| CO Colombia | — | 115 | 115 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 6 |
| FR France | — | 111 | 111 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | 111 | 115 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 3 |
| PA Panama | — | 102 | 97 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 6 |
| IL Israel | — | 86 | 87 rec. | — | — | Locklear | 2 |
Roughly 20K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 17K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
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Languages●
- English147K89%
- Spanish4.8K3%
- 4.5K3%
- Polish3K2%
- German6061%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 147,188 | 89% |
| Spanish | 4,831 | 3% |
| 4,499 | 3% | |
| Polish | 2,993 | 2% |
| German | 606 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Locklear is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An English surname also used by the Lumbee people in the United States.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Probably a different form of Lockyer.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Ormer Leslie Locklearb. 1891USAmerican actor, aviator (1891-1920)
- Horace Locklearb. 1921USAmerican politician
- Arlinda Locklearb. 1951USAmerican lawyer
- Heather Locklearb. 1961USAmerican actress (born 1961)
- Lexus Locklearb. 1976USAmerican pornographic actress
- Sean Locklearb. 1981USAmerican football offensive lineman
- Ashton Locklearb. 1998USAmerican artistic gymnast
- James H. Locklearbotanist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,819 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #2,003 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Locklear?
- We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Locklear (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Locklear have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Locklear in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled locklear.
- How common is Locklear compared with other names?
- In Malta, Locklear is the most common surname of 4,071 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Locklear mean?
- Recorded meaning: Probably a variant of English Lockyer.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Locklear” — the most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.