How common is the surname Laughter?

1,937 people in the United States had the surname Laughter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,394 Americans. It ranked 15,210th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Laughter?

In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Laughter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Laughter getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,947 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,937 in 2010, down 0.5%.

The surname Laughter

A surname, carried by 1,937 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L236

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Laughter is more common than 90.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,937 people named Laughter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 159,394 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,947.

#15,210

rank among US surnames

1,937

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-0.5%

change since 2000 (was #14,158)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,201	Munk	1,938	159,311
#15,210	Schnur	1,937	159,394
#15,217	Nathanson	1,936	159,476

Who is named Laughter

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

84% of people named Laughter identified as white (not Hispanic), 10% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 84%
American Indian and Alaska Native 10%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Laughter

Laughter 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 Laughter?: 1,937 people in the United States had the surname Laughter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,394 Americans. It ranked 15,210th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Laughter?: In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Laughter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 10% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Laughter getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,947 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,937 in 2010, down 0.5%.