How common is the surname Auclair?

1,346 people in the United States had the surname Auclair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 229,380 Americans. It ranked 19,933rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Auclair?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Auclair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Auclair getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,357 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,346 in 2010, down 0.8%.

The surname Auclair

A French surname, carried by 1,346 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex A246

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Auclair is more common than 87.7% of them.

Origin

French origin

From French Auclair

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,346 people named Auclair in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 229,380 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,357.

#19,933

rank among US surnames

1,346

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-0.8%

change since 2000 (was #18,701)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,924	Meigs	1,347	229,210
#19,933	Dunkelberger	1,346	229,380

Who is named Auclair

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

92% of people named Auclair identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Auclair

Auclair has the Soundex code A246, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A246.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Auclair come from?: From French Auclair
How common is the surname Auclair?: 1,346 people in the United States had the surname Auclair in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 229,380 Americans. It ranked 19,933rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Auclair?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Auclair identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Auclair getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,357 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,346 in 2010, down 0.8%.