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    The surname Llera

    A Spanish place surname, carried by 517 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L600

    Llera: #42,030 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Llera #42,030, 517 people Llera: #42,030 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Llera #42,030, 517 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Llera is more common than 74.1% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Llera, a habitational surname from various places in Spain, from llera (“pebbly or stony area”).

    Llera is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 517 people named Llera in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 597,187 Americans. That is up 30% since 2000, when the Census counted 398.

    #42,030
    rank among US surnames
    517
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +29.9%
    change since 2000 (was #49,563)

    Who is named Llera

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

    84% of people named Llera identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 12% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 84%
    • White (not Hispanic) 12%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 2.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Llera

    Llera has the Soundex code L600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L600.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Llera come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Llera, a habitational surname from various places in Spain, from llera (“pebbly or stony area”).
    How common is the surname Llera?
    517 people in the United States had the surname Llera in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 597,187 Americans. It ranked 42,030th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Llera?
    In the 2010 Census, 84% of people named Llera identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 12% as white (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Llera?
    Llera is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Llera getting more or less common?
    More common. 398 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 517 in 2010, up 30%.