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    The surname Lacher

    A surname, carried by 1,744 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L260

    Lacher: #16,475 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lacher #16,475, 1,744 people Lacher: #16,475 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lacher #16,475, 1,744 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lacher is more common than 89.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,744 people named Lacher in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,033 Americans. That is up 3.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,684.

    #16,475
    rank among US surnames
    1,744
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.6%
    change since 2000 (was #15,861)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,470Denker1,745176,932
    #16,475Lacher1,744177,033
    #16,481Chess1,743177,135

    Who is named Lacher

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

    95% of people named Lacher identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lacher

    Lacher has the Soundex code L260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lacher?
    1,744 people in the United States had the surname Lacher in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,033 Americans. It ranked 16,475th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lacher?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lacher identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Lacher getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,684 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,744 in 2010, up 3.6%.