The surname Looper
A surname, carried by 4,451 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L160
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 4,451 people named Looper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 69,365 Americans. That is up 7.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,150.
#7,486
rank among US surnames
4,451
people in 2010
1.5
per 100,000 Americans
+7.3%
change since 2000 (was #7,403)
Who is named Looper
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
81% of people named Looper identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 81%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
- Two or more races 2.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Looper has the Soundex code L160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L160.
Questions
- How common is the surname Looper?
- 4,451 people in the United States had the surname Looper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 69,365 Americans. It ranked 7,486th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Looper?
- In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Looper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Looper getting more or less common?
- More common. 4,150 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,451 in 2010, up 7.3%.