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    The surname Lunger

    A surname, carried by 1,091 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L526

    Lunger: #23,333 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Lunger #23,333, 1,091 people Lunger: #23,333 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Lunger #23,333, 1,091 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lunger is more common than 85.6% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,091 people named Lunger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 282,993 Americans. That is down 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,103.

    #23,333
    rank among US surnames
    1,091
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #21,934)

    Who is named Lunger

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

    96% of people named Lunger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
    • Two or more races 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Lunger

    Lunger has the Soundex code L526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L526.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Lunger?
    1,091 people in the United States had the surname Lunger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 282,993 Americans. It ranked 23,333rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lunger?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lunger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Lunger getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,103 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,091 in 2010, down 1.1%.