The surname Levasseur
A French surname, carried by 4,404 people in the United States.
3 syllables Soundex L126
Origin
French origin
From French Le Vasseur.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,404 people named Levasseur in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,106 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,292.
Who is named Levasseur
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
92% of people named Levasseur identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 92%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.8%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Variant spellings
- Vasseur
Levasseur has the Soundex code L126, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L126.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Levasseur come from?
- From French Le Vasseur.
- How common is the surname Levasseur?
- 4,404 people in the United States had the surname Levasseur in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,106 Americans. It ranked 7,550th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Levasseur?
- In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Levasseur identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Levasseur getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,292 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,404 in 2010, up 2.6%.
- What are other spellings of Levasseur?
- Vasseur.