50.0% live in New York
16.7% live in Maryland
8.3% live in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Georgia
If you don't like people
with the name lakshmanan
you should probably go to
New Hampshire (None live there).
Fun fact: Maryland
is the state with the most
last name lakshmanan per capita.
Check out the popularity
of the last name lakshmanan
for each state in the map below.