The surname Lingenfelter
A surname, carried by 3,491 people in the United States.
4 syllables Soundex L525
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,491 people named Lingenfelter in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 88,440 Americans. That is up 6.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,280.
#9,330
rank among US surnames
3,491
people in 2010
1.2
per 100,000 Americans
+6.4%
change since 2000 (was #9,145)
Who is named Lingenfelter
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Lingenfelter identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
- Two or more races 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Lingenfelter
Lingenfelter has the Soundex code L525, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L525.
Questions
- How common is the surname Lingenfelter?
- 3,491 people in the United States had the surname Lingenfelter in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 88,440 Americans. It ranked 9,330th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lingenfelter?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lingenfelter identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Lingenfelter getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,280 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,491 in 2010, up 6.4%.