The surname Laporte
A French surname, carried by 7,528 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L163
Origin
French origin
Borrowed from French Laporte.
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 7,528 people named Laporte in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 41,013 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,176.
Who is named Laporte
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Laporte identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 9.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Laporte has the Soundex code L163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L163.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Laporte come from?
- Borrowed from French Laporte.
- How common is the surname Laporte?
- 7,528 people in the United States had the surname Laporte in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 41,013 Americans. It ranked 4,711th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Laporte?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Laporte identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Laporte getting more or less common?
- More common. 7,176 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,528 in 2010, up 4.9%.