How common is the surname Lefever?

3,327 people in the United States had the surname Lefever in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,800 Americans. It ranked 9,741st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lefever?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lefever identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lefever getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,331 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,327 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Lefever

A surname, carried by 3,327 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L116

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lefever is more common than 94% of them.

Origin

French surname, Americanized from Lefèvre. This surname is also found in Flanders. Compare Lafever, Lefevers, Defever.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,327 people named Lefever in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 92,800 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,331.

#9,741

rank among US surnames

3,327

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #9,024)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#9,734	Strode	3,331	92,689
#9,735	Crispin	3,330	92,716
#9,736	Clymer	3,329	92,744
#9,741	Raven	3,327	92,800
#9,745	Phoenix	3,326	92,828
#9,747	Frady	3,325	92,856

Who is named Lefever

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

94% of people named Lefever identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lefever

Lefever has the Soundex code L116, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L116.

Questions

Where does the surname Lefever come from?: French surname, Americanized from Lefèvre. This surname is also found in Flanders. Compare Lafever, Lefevers, Defever.
How common is the surname Lefever?: 3,327 people in the United States had the surname Lefever in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 92,800 Americans. It ranked 9,741st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lefever?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lefever identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lefever getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,331 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,327 in 2010, down 0.1%.