The surname Lafountain
A surname, carried by 3,639 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex L153
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,639 people named Lafountain in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,844 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,498.
#8,990
rank among US surnames
3,639
people in 2010
1.2
per 100,000 Americans
+4%
change since 2000 (was #8,650)
Who is named Lafountain
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
87% of people named Lafountain identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 87%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 6.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 2.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Surnames that sound like Lafountain
Lafountain has the Soundex code L153, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L153.
Questions
- How common is the surname Lafountain?
- 3,639 people in the United States had the surname Lafountain in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,844 Americans. It ranked 8,990th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lafountain?
- In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Lafountain identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.5% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Lafountain getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,498 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,639 in 2010, up 4.0%.