The LAFOUNTAIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,498	8650	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	301	14229	0.001	6
Change since 1880	+3197	+5579	0	+7
Other Countries
Australia	0			0
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for LAFOUNTAIN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	865	2410	0.005	46
Michigan	370	3591	0.004	37
Massachusetts	276	3499	0.004	43
Florida	235	8852	0.001	15
Vermont	207	503	0.034	340
Top States for LAFOUNTAIN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	207	503	0.034	340
North Dakota	84	1160	0.013	131
Montana	59	2320	0.007	65
Maine	64	3367	0.005	50
Connecticut	162	3118	0.005	48

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

Classification and Origin of LAFOUNTAIN

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LAFOUNTAIN 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 LAFOUNTAIN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	210	6
Mixed Race	70	2
Black/African American	40	1.14
White (Hispanic)	37	1.06
Asian/Pacific	14	0.4
White (Caucasian)	3,127	89.39

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

Similar names to LAFOUNTAIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAFOUNTAIN.

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.