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    The surname Lorance

    A surname, carried by 1,044 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L652

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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). Lorance is more common than 85.1% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,044 people named Lorance in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 295,733 Americans. That is down 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,144.

    #24,112
    rank among US surnames
    1,044
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -8.7%
    change since 2000 (was #21,335)

    Who is named Lorance

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

    91% of people named Lorance identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as two or more races and 2.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 2.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lorance

    Lorance has the Soundex code L652, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L652.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lorance?
    1,044 people in the United States had the surname Lorance in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 295,733 Americans. It ranked 24,112th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lorance?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Lorance identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Lorance getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,144 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,044 in 2010, down 8.7%.