How common is the surname Lefler?

3,684 people in the United States had the surname Lefler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,807 Americans. It ranked 8,888th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lefler?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lefler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lefler getting more or less common?

More common. 3,650 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,684 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Lefler

A surname, carried by 3,684 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L146

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lefler is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,684 people named Lefler in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,807 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,650.

#8,888

rank among US surnames

3,684

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #8,342)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,882	Geddes	3,687	83,739
#8,885	Hollon	3,686	83,762
#8,887	Bisson	3,685	83,784
#8,888	Langham	3,684	83,807
#8,890	Vereen	3,683	83,830
#8,891	Diorio	3,682	83,853
#8,894	Wentzel	3,681	83,875

Who is named Lefler

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

95% of people named Lefler identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lefler

Lefler has the Soundex code L146, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L146.

Questions

How common is the surname Lefler?: 3,684 people in the United States had the surname Lefler in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,807 Americans. It ranked 8,888th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lefler?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lefler identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lefler getting more or less common?: More common. 3,650 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,684 in 2010, up 0.9%.