The LAPORTE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,176	4538	0.003	27
United States (1880 census)	381	11947	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+6795	+7409	+0.002	+19
Other Countries
Australia	49	26042	0	3
United Kingdom	100	23887	0	2

Top States for LAPORTE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	780	2447	0.004	41
Michigan	732	1532	0.007	74
Florida	585	3553	0.004	37
Massachusetts	544	1689	0.009	86
California	422	6629	0.001	12
Top States for LAPORTE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	128	1086	0.016	163
Vermont	97	1127	0.016	159
Rhode Island	161	948	0.015	154
New Hampshire	128	1557	0.010	104
Connecticut	324	1337	0.010	95

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

Classification and Origin of LAPORTE

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 LAPORTE 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 LAPORTE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	473	6.59
Black/African American	230	3.21
Mixed Race	83	1.16
Native American/Alaskan	42	0.59
Asian/Pacific	39	0.54
White (Caucasian)	6,309	87.92

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

Similar names to LAPORTE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAPORTE.

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.