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    The surname Lorence

    A surname, carried by 1,715 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L652

    Lorence: #16,696 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lorence #16,696, 1,715 people Lorence: #16,696 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lorence #16,696, 1,715 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lorence is more common than 89.7% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,715 people named Lorence in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 180,027 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,459.

    #16,696
    rank among US surnames
    1,715
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +17.5%
    change since 2000 (was #17,710)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #16,687Fralick1,716179,922
    #16,696Lorence1,715180,027
    #16,704Guidroz1,714180,132

    Who is named Lorence

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

    92% of people named Lorence identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • Two or more races 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lorence

    Lorence 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 Lorence?
    1,715 people in the United States had the surname Lorence in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 180,027 Americans. It ranked 16,696th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lorence?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Lorence identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Lorence getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,459 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,715 in 2010, up 18%.