The surname Larimer
An occupational surname, carried by 2,579 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex L656
Origin
A surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Lorimer.
Larimer is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,579 people named Larimer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 119,715 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,537.
Who is named Larimer
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
95% of people named Larimer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 95%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.5%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Larimer has the Soundex code L656, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L656.
Questions
- How common is the surname Larimer?
- 2,579 people in the United States had the surname Larimer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 119,715 Americans. It ranked 12,083rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Larimer?
- In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Larimer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- What type of surname is Larimer?
- Larimer is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Larimer getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,537 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,579 in 2010, up 1.7%.