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    The surname Latour

    A French surname, carried by 3,323 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L360

    Latour: #9,754 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Latour #9,754, 3,323 people Latour: #9,754 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Latour #9,754, 3,323 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Latour is more common than 94% of them.

    Origin

    French origin

    From French Latour.

    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 3,323 people named Latour in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 92,912 Americans. That is up 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,202.

    #9,754
    rank among US surnames
    3,323
    people in 2010
    1.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #9,340)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,745Phoenix3,32692,828
    #9,747Frady3,32592,856
    #9,751Wash3,32492,884
    #9,754Latour3,32392,912
    #9,756Paynter3,32292,940
    #9,760Penton3,32192,968
    #9,761Struck3,32092,996

    Who is named Latour

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

    83% of people named Latour identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.9%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Latour

    Latour has the Soundex code L360, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L360.

    Other French surnames

    All 791 French surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Latour come from?
    From French Latour.
    How common is the surname Latour?
    3,323 people in the United States had the surname Latour in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,912 Americans. It ranked 9,754th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Latour?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Latour identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Latour getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,202 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,323 in 2010, up 3.8%.