The surname Lavoy
A surname, carried by 1,039 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L100
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,039 people named Lavoy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 297,156 Americans. That is up 1.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,022.
#24,186
rank among US surnames
1,039
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
+1.7%
change since 2000 (was #23,273)
Who is named Lavoy
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
84% of people named Lavoy identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 84%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 11%
- Two or more races 2.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Lavoy has the Soundex code L100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L100.
Questions
- How common is the surname Lavoy?
- 1,039 people in the United States had the surname Lavoy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,156 Americans. It ranked 24,186th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lavoy?
- In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Lavoy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Lavoy getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,022 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,039 in 2010, up 1.7%.