How common is the surname Lauffer?

1,273 people in the United States had the surname Lauffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 242,534 Americans. It ranked 20,758th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lauffer?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lauffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lauffer getting more or less common?

More common. 1,247 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,273 in 2010, up 2.1%.

The surname Lauffer

A surname, carried by 1,273 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lauffer is more common than 87.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,273 people named Lauffer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 242,534 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,247.

#20,758

rank among US surnames

1,273

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.1%

change since 2000 (was #19,931)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#20,750	Sanroman	1,274	242,343
#20,758	Pintado	1,273	242,534

Who is named Lauffer

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

95% of people named Lauffer identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lauffer

Lauffer has the Soundex code L160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L160.

Questions

How common is the surname Lauffer?: 1,273 people in the United States had the surname Lauffer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 242,534 Americans. It ranked 20,758th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lauffer?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lauffer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lauffer getting more or less common?: More common. 1,247 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,273 in 2010, up 2.1%.