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    The surname Lorah

    A surname, carried by 1,070 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L600

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lorah is more common than 85.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,070 people named Lorah in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 288,547 Americans. That is up 2.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,045.

    #23,675
    rank among US surnames
    1,070
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.4%
    change since 2000 (was #22,870)

    Who is named Lorah

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

    97% of people named Lorah identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lorah

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lorah?
    1,070 people in the United States had the surname Lorah in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 288,547 Americans. It ranked 23,675th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lorah?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Lorah identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.9% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Lorah getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,070 in 2010, up 2.4%.