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    The surname Laverty

    An Irish surname, carried by 2,879 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L163

    Laverty: #11,044 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Laverty #11,044, 2,879 people Laverty: #11,044 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Laverty #11,044, 2,879 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Laverty is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Lafferty.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,879 people named Laverty in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,241 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,791.

    #11,044
    rank among US surnames
    2,879
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #10,543)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #11,035Foret2,881107,166
    #11,040Bruder2,880107,203
    #11,044Rickett2,879107,241
    #11,047Branum2,878107,278
    #11,051Dabrowski2,877107,315

    Who is named Laverty

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

    95% of people named Laverty identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    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 Laverty

    Laverty has the Soundex code L163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L163.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Laverty come from?
    Variant of Lafferty.
    How common is the surname Laverty?
    2,879 people in the United States had the surname Laverty in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,241 Americans. It ranked 11,044th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Laverty?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Laverty identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Laverty getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,791 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,879 in 2010, up 3.2%.