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    The surname Loker

    A surname, carried by 626 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L260

    Loker: #35,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Loker #35,866, 626 people Loker: #35,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Loker #35,866, 626 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Loker is more common than 77.9% of them.

    Origin

    * As an English surname, variant of Luker. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Lokar, from the noun loka (“water meadow”), from Proto-Slavic *lǫka. Compare Locker.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 626 people named Loker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 493,204 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 610.

    #35,866
    rank among US surnames
    626
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.6%
    change since 2000 (was #35,003)

    Who is named Loker

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

    95% of people named Loker identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Loker

    Loker has the Soundex code L260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L260.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Loker come from?
    * As an English surname, variant of Luker. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Lokar, from the noun loka (“water meadow”), from Proto-Slavic *lǫka. Compare Locker.
    How common is the surname Loker?
    626 people in the United States had the surname Loker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 493,204 Americans. It ranked 35,866th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Loker?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Loker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Loker getting more or less common?
    More common. 610 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 626 in 2010, up 2.6%.