How common is the surname Lagasse?

2,823 people in the United States had the surname Lagasse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,368 Americans. It ranked 11,197th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lagasse?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lagasse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lagasse getting more or less common?

More common. 2,682 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,823 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Lagasse

A French surname, carried by 2,823 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L220

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lagasse is more common than 93.1% of them.

Origin

French origin

From French Lagacé.

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 2,823 people named Lagasse in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 109,368 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,682.

#11,197

rank among US surnames

2,823

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #10,893)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,189	Linde	2,826	109,252
#11,193	Boman	2,825	109,290
#11,196	Nally	2,824	109,329
#11,197	Domingues	2,823	109,368
#11,200	Sweeten	2,822	109,407
#11,204	Castille	2,821	109,445

Who is named Lagasse

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

96% of people named Lagasse identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Lagace

Surnames that sound like Lagasse

Lagasse has the Soundex code L220, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L220.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Lagasse come from?: From French Lagacé.
How common is the surname Lagasse?: 2,823 people in the United States had the surname Lagasse in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 109,368 Americans. It ranked 11,197th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lagasse?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lagasse identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lagasse getting more or less common?: More common. 2,682 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,823 in 2010, up 5.3%.
What are other spellings of Lagasse?: Lagace.