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The surname Leflore

A surname, carried by 2,884 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L146

Leflore: #11,026 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Leflore #11,026, 2,884 people Leflore: #11,026 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Leflore #11,026, 2,884 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leflore is more common than 93.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,884 people named Leflore in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 107,055 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,509.

#11,026
rank among US surnames
2,884
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
+14.9%
change since 2000 (was #11,507)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#11,021Bourassa2,886106,980
#11,025Milazzo2,885107,018
#11,026Feder2,884107,055
#11,030Hauge2,883107,092
#11,031Chambless2,882107,129
#11,035Foret2,881107,166

Who is named Leflore

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

75% of people named Leflore identified as Black (not Hispanic), 13% as white (not Hispanic) and 6.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

  • Black (not Hispanic) 75%
  • White (not Hispanic) 13%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 6.1%
  • Two or more races 3.8%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Leflore

Leflore 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 Leflore?
2,884 people in the United States had the surname Leflore in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 107,055 Americans. It ranked 11,026th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leflore?
In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Leflore identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 13% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Leflore getting more or less common?
More common. 2,509 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,884 in 2010, up 15%.