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The surname Laflamme

A French surname, carried by 3,689 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L145

Laflamme: #8,875 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Laflamme #8,875, 3,689 people Laflamme: #8,875 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Laflamme #8,875, 3,689 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Laflamme is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

French origin

Borrowed from French Laflamme.

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 3,689 people named Laflamme in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,694 Americans. That is up 5.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,506.

#8,875
rank among US surnames
3,689
people in 2010
1.3
per 100,000 Americans
+5.2%
change since 2000 (was #8,633)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#8,870Cirillo3,69283,626
#8,872Phares3,69183,648
#8,873Gailey3,69083,671
#8,875Laflamme3,68983,694
#8,878Stanger3,68883,716
#8,882Geddes3,68783,739

Who is named Laflamme

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

97% of people named Laflamme identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 97%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • Two or more races 1.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

  • Flamme
  • Laflam

Laflamme has the Soundex code L145, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L145.

Other French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Laflamme come from?
Borrowed from French Laflamme.
How common is the surname Laflamme?
3,689 people in the United States had the surname Laflamme in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,694 Americans. It ranked 8,875th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Laflamme?
In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Laflamme identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Laflamme getting more or less common?
More common. 3,506 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,689 in 2010, up 5.2%.
What are other spellings of Laflamme?
Flamme and Laflam.