The surname Lapoint
A surname, carried by 2,886 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L153
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,886 people named Lapoint in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,836.
#11,021
rank among US surnames
2,886
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+1.8%
change since 2000 (was #10,416)
Who is named Lapoint
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Lapoint identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Lapoint 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 Lapoint?
- 2,886 people in the United States had the surname Lapoint in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,980 Americans. It ranked 11,021st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lapoint?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Lapoint identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Lapoint getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,836 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,886 in 2010, up 1.8%.