How common is the surname Loria?

1,781 people in the United States had the surname Loria in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,355 Americans. It ranked 16,214th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Loria?

In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Loria identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Loria getting more or less common?

More common. 1,737 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,781 in 2010, up 2.5%.

The surname Loria

An Italian place surname, carried by 1,781 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Loria is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Loria, a variant of Lauria, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Spanish Loría, a surname predominantly found in Costa Rica. * Borrowed from Hebrew לוריא, a Jewish habitational surname from the town of Loria, in Italy.

Loria is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,781 people named Loria in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 173,355 Americans. That is up 2.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,737.

#16,214

rank among US surnames

1,781

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.5%

change since 2000 (was #15,473)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#16,214	Loria	1,781	173,355
#16,219	Stennett	1,780	173,453

Who is named Loria

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

66% of people named Loria identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 7.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 66%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 24%
Asian and Pacific Islander 7.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.5%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Luria

Surnames that sound like Loria

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

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Loria come from?: Various origins: * Borrowed from Italian Loria, a variant of Lauria, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Spanish Loría, a surname predominantly found in Costa Rica. * Borrowed from Hebrew לוריא, a Jewish habitational surname from the town of Loria, in Italy.
How common is the surname Loria?: 1,781 people in the United States had the surname Loria in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 173,355 Americans. It ranked 16,214th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Loria?: In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Loria identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Loria?: Loria is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Loria getting more or less common?: More common. 1,737 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,781 in 2010, up 2.5%.
What are other spellings of Loria?: Luria.