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The LAUGHTER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,947 14158 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 211 18544 0 4
Change since 1880 +1736 +4386 +N/A +3
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAUGHTER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 715 2087 0.009 89
South Carolina 169 3861 0.004 42
Texas 96 19405 0.000 5
Tennessee 94 7325 0.002 17
Utah 78 4313 0.003 35
Top States for LAUGHTER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 715 2087 0.009 89
South Carolina 169 3861 0.004 42
Utah 78 4313 0.003 35
Mississippi 67 5084 0.002 24
Arkansas 55 6406 0.002 21

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LAUGHTER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LAUGHTER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LAUGHTER in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LAUGHTER by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LAUGHTER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LAUGHTER surname.

Ethnic distribution of LAUGHTER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 157 8.06
Black/African American 46 2.36
Mixed Race 28 1.44
White (Hispanic) 21 1.08
Asian/Pacific 11 0.56
White (Caucasian) 1,684 86.49

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LAUGHTER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

LAUGHTER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LAUGHTER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LAUGHTER.

Similar names to LAUGHTER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAUGHTER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LAUGHTER

The following words are slight variants of LAUGHTER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.