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    The surname Lasiter

    A surname, carried by 1,206 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L236

    Lasiter: #21,625 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lasiter #21,625, 1,206 people Lasiter: #21,625 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lasiter #21,625, 1,206 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lasiter is more common than 86.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,206 people named Lasiter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 256,008 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,366.

    #21,625
    rank among US surnames
    1,206
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -11.7%
    change since 2000 (was #18,607)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #21,625Rathke1,206256,008
    #21,633Nakai1,205256,220

    Who is named Lasiter

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

    87% of people named Lasiter identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
    • Two or more races 3.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lasiter

    Lasiter has the Soundex code L236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L236.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lasiter?
    1,206 people in the United States had the surname Lasiter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 256,008 Americans. It ranked 21,625th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lasiter?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Lasiter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lasiter getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,366 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,206 in 2010, down 12%.