The LAFONTAINE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,497	8657	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	172	21519	0	3
Change since 1880	+3325	+12862	+N/A	+10
Other Countries
Australia	13	73775	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for LAFONTAINE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	268	9405	0.001	8
New York	260	7123	0.001	14
Florida	257	7216	0.002	16
Michigan	226	5148	0.002	23
Massachusetts	206	4000	0.003	32
Top States for LAFONTAINE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	119	1098	0.015	152
North Dakota	63	1379	0.010	98
Rhode Island	71	2212	0.007	68
New Hampshire	82	2239	0.007	66
Maine	84	2459	0.007	66

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of LAFONTAINE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAFONTAINE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LAFONTAINE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	374	10.69
Native American/Alaskan	150	4.29
Mixed Race	76	2.17
Black/African American	55	1.57
Asian/Pacific	16	0.46
White (Caucasian)	2,826	80.81

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

Similar names to LAFONTAINE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAFONTAINE.

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.