The surname Lapointe
A French surname, carried by 8,894 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L153
Origin
French origin
Borrowed from French Lapointe.
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 8,894 people named Lapointe in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 34,714 Americans. That is up 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,525.
Who is named Lapointe
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
88% of people named Lapointe identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 88%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 4.8%
- Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Lapointe
Lapointe has the Soundex code L153, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L153.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Lapointe come from?
- Borrowed from French Lapointe.
- How common is the surname Lapointe?
- 8,894 people in the United States had the surname Lapointe in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 34,714 Americans. It ranked 3,995th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lapointe?
- In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Lapointe identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
- Is the surname Lapointe getting more or less common?
- More common. 8,525 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,894 in 2010, up 4.3%.