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    The surname Laque

    A Catalan place surname, carried by 523 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L200

    Laque: #41,579 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Laque #41,579, 523 people Laque: #41,579 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Laque #41,579, 523 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Laque is more common than 74.4% of them.

    Origin

    Catalan origin

    Borrowed from Catalan Laqué, a variant of Llaqué, a topographic surname from a diminutive of llac (“pond”).

    Laque is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 39 Catalan surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 523 people named Laque in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. That is up 17% since 2000, when the Census counted 448.

    #41,579
    rank among US surnames
    523
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +16.7%
    change since 2000 (was #45,078)

    Who is named Laque

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

    48% of people named Laque identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 46% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 48%
    • White (not Hispanic) 46%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Laque

    Laque has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

    Other Catalan surnames

    All 39 Catalan surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Laque come from?
    Borrowed from Catalan Laqué, a variant of Llaqué, a topographic surname from a diminutive of llac (“pond”).
    How common is the surname Laque?
    523 people in the United States had the surname Laque in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. It ranked 41,579th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Laque?
    In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Laque identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 46% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Laque?
    Laque is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Laque getting more or less common?
    More common. 448 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 523 in 2010, up 17%.