The surname Laforge
A surname, carried by 2,231 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L162
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,231 people named Laforge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 138,389 Americans. That is up 8.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,050.
#13,588
rank among US surnames
2,231
people in 2010
0.8
per 100,000 Americans
+8.8%
change since 2000 (was #13,584)
Who is named Laforge
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Laforge identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 6.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Laforge has the Soundex code L162, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L162.
Questions
- How common is the surname Laforge?
- 2,231 people in the United States had the surname Laforge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 138,389 Americans. It ranked 13,588th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Laforge?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Laforge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Laforge getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,050 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,231 in 2010, up 8.8%.