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    The surname Laughman

    A surname, carried by 1,508 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L255

    Laughman: #18,366 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Laughman #18,366, 1,508 people Laughman: #18,366 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Laughman #18,366, 1,508 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Laughman is more common than 88.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,508 people named Laughman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 204,738 Americans. That is up 2.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,476.

    #18,366
    rank among US surnames
    1,508
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.2%
    change since 2000 (was #17,566)

    Who is named Laughman

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

    97% of people named Laughman identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.2%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    • 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 Laughman

    Laughman has the Soundex code L255, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L255.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Laughman?
    1,508 people in the United States had the surname Laughman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 204,738 Americans. It ranked 18,366th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Laughman?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Laughman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Laughman getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,476 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,508 in 2010, up 2.2%.