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    The surname Lahr

    A surname, carried by 3,666 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L600

    Lahr: #8,928 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lahr #8,928, 3,666 people Lahr: #8,928 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lahr #8,928, 3,666 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lahr is more common than 94.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,666 people named Lahr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 84,219 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,577.

    #8,928
    rank among US surnames
    3,666
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.5%
    change since 2000 (was #8,481)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #8,920Kersten3,66984,150
    #8,923Klingler3,66884,173
    #8,925Epley3,66784,196
    #8,928Weigand3,66684,219
    #8,934Godin3,66584,242
    #8,936Nickelson3,66484,265

    Who is named Lahr

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

    94% of people named Lahr identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lahr

    Lahr has the Soundex code L600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L600.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lahr?
    3,666 people in the United States had the surname Lahr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 84,219 Americans. It ranked 8,928th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lahr?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lahr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Lahr getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,577 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,666 in 2010, up 2.5%.