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    The surname Lattimer

    A surname, carried by 1,737 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L356

    Lattimer: #16,534 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lattimer #16,534, 1,737 people Lattimer: #16,534 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lattimer #16,534, 1,737 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lattimer is more common than 89.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,737 people named Lattimer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 177,746 Americans. That is up 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,599.

    #16,534
    rank among US surnames
    1,737
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.6%
    change since 2000 (was #16,540)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,525Carnegie1,738177,644
    #16,534Cluck1,737177,746
    #16,536Divito1,736177,849

    Who is named Lattimer

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

    83% of people named Lattimer identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 83%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lattimer

    Lattimer has the Soundex code L356, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L356.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lattimer?
    1,737 people in the United States had the surname Lattimer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 177,746 Americans. It ranked 16,534th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lattimer?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Lattimer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Lattimer getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,599 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,737 in 2010, up 8.6%.