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The LAFORTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 700 31301 0 3
United States (1880 census) 25 68385 0 0
Change since 1880 +675 +37084 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAFORTE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 131 12842 0.001 7
Florida 79 18829 0.000 5
New Jersey 56 15416 0.001 7
Massachusetts 49 13761 0.001 8
Illinois 40 28755 0.000 3
Top States for LAFORTE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 7 12215 0.001 11
Kansas 26 10954 0.001 10
Massachusetts 49 13761 0.001 8
Connecticut 25 16902 0.001 7
New York 131 12842 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of LAFORTE

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

Ethnic distribution of LAFORTE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 590 84.29
Mixed Race 32 4.57
Black/African American 28 4
Native American/Alaskan 25 3.57
White (Hispanic) 25 3.57
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 0

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

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

Meaning of LAFORTE in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAFORTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAFORTE.

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 LAFORTE

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