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    The surname Lafortune

    A surname, carried by 1,574 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L163

    Lafortune: #17,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lafortune #17,789, 1,574 people Lafortune: #17,789 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lafortune #17,789, 1,574 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lafortune is more common than 89% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,574 people named Lafortune in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 196,153 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,310.

    #17,789
    rank among US surnames
    1,574
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +20.2%
    change since 2000 (was #19,174)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,784Mallari1,575196,029
    #17,789Lafortune1,574196,153
    #17,798Baas1,573196,278

    Who is named Lafortune

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

    57% of people named Lafortune identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 57%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 37%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lafortune

    Lafortune has the Soundex code L163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L163.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lafortune?
    1,574 people in the United States had the surname Lafortune in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 196,153 Americans. It ranked 17,789th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lafortune?
    In the 2010 Census, 57% of people named Lafortune identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lafortune getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,310 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,574 in 2010, up 20%.