How common is the surname Loflin?

2,053 people in the United States had the surname Loflin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. It ranked 14,523rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Loflin?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Loflin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Loflin getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,070 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,053 in 2010, down 0.8%.

The surname Loflin

A surname, carried by 2,053 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L145

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Loflin is more common than 91% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,053 people named Loflin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. That is down 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,070.

#14,523

rank among US surnames

2,053

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-0.8%

change since 2000 (was #13,480)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,519	Bogert	2,054	150,314
#14,523	Capasso	2,053	150,388
#14,528	Choquette	2,052	150,461
#14,532	Anspach	2,051	150,534

Who is named Loflin

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

95% of people named Loflin identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Loflin

Lofland

Loflin has the Soundex code L145, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L145.

Questions

How common is the surname Loflin?: 2,053 people in the United States had the surname Loflin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 150,388 Americans. It ranked 14,523rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Loflin?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Loflin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Loflin getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,070 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,053 in 2010, down 0.8%.