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The surname Lackner

A German surname, carried by 1,131 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L256

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Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lackner is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,131 people named Lackner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,985 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,155.

#22,673
rank among US surnames
1,131
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
-2.1%
change since 2000 (was #21,176)

Who is named Lackner

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

96% of people named Lackner identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Two or more races 1.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lackner

Lackner has the Soundex code L256, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L256.

Other German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lackner come from?
Lackner is German in origin.
How common is the surname Lackner?
1,131 people in the United States had the surname Lackner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,985 Americans. It ranked 22,673rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lackner?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lackner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
Is the surname Lackner getting more or less common?
Less common. 1,155 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,131 in 2010, down 2.1%.