The surname Loper
A surname, carried by 7,950 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 7,950 people named Loper in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 38,836 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,695.
#4,467
rank among US surnames
7,950
people in 2010
2.7
per 100,000 Americans
+3.3%
change since 2000 (was #4,261)
Who is named Loper
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
81% of people named Loper identified as white (not Hispanic), 12% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 81%
- Black (not Hispanic) 12%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.8%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Loper 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 Loper?
- 7,950 people in the United States had the surname Loper in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 38,836 Americans. It ranked 4,467th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Loper?
- In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Loper identified as white (not Hispanic), and 12% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Loper getting more or less common?
- More common. 7,695 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,950 in 2010, up 3.3%.