How common is the surname Laplant?

2,482 people in the United States had the surname Laplant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,394 Americans. It ranked 12,491st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Laplant?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Laplant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Laplant getting more or less common?

More common. 2,341 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,482 in 2010, up 6.0%.

The surname Laplant

A surname, carried by 2,482 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L145

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Laplant is more common than 92.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,482 people named Laplant in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 124,394 Americans. That is up 6.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,341.

#12,491

rank among US surnames

2,482

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+6%

change since 2000 (was #12,202)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,482	Bade	2,487	124,144
#12,485	Lowrie	2,485	124,244
#12,488	Tuma	2,484	124,294
#12,491	Laplant	2,482	124,394
#12,496	Justiniano	2,481	124,444
#12,500	Howey	2,480	124,494

Who is named Laplant

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

92% of people named Laplant identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
American Indian and Alaska Native 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Laplant

Laplante

Laplant has the Soundex code L145, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L145.

Questions

How common is the surname Laplant?: 2,482 people in the United States had the surname Laplant in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 124,394 Americans. It ranked 12,491st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Laplant?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Laplant identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Laplant getting more or less common?: More common. 2,341 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,482 in 2010, up 6.0%.