How common is the surname Luce?

9,704 people in the United States had the surname Luce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,816 Americans. It ranked 3,672nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Luce?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Luce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Luce?

Clare Boothe Luce, American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987, followed by Henry Luce.

Where is the surname Luce most common?

Wikidata records people named Luce in the United States.

Is the surname Luce getting more or less common?

More common. 9,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,704 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Luce

An Italian surname, carried by 9,704 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Luce is more common than 97.7% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

A surname from Italian.

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 9,704 people named Luce in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,816 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,489.

#3,672

rank among US surnames

9,704

people in 2010

3.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #3,445)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,666	Colson	9,710	31,797
#3,668	Heckman	9,709	31,800
#3,670	Tinoco	9,707	31,806
#3,672	Luce	9,704	31,816

Who is named Luce

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

94% of people named Luce identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Luces

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Clare Boothe Luce
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987
Henry Luce
American magazine publisher (1898–1967)
Claire Luce
American actress and dancer (1903-1989)
R. Duncan Luce
American mathematical psychologist (1925–2012)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Luce

Luce has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Luce come from?: Luce is Italian in origin.
How common is the surname Luce?: 9,704 people in the United States had the surname Luce in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,816 Americans. It ranked 3,672nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Luce?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Luce identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Luce?: Clare Boothe Luce, American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist (1903-1987, followed by Henry Luce.
Where is the surname Luce most common?: Wikidata records people named Luce in the United States.
Is the surname Luce getting more or less common?: More common. 9,489 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,704 in 2010, up 2.3%.