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The LAURA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,515 17221 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 115 28683 0 2
Change since 1880 +1400 +11462 +N/A +4
Other Countries
Australia 6 129333 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAURA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 222 9443 0.001 7
Michigan 173 5608 0.002 17
New York 160 9568 0.001 8
Florida 119 12032 0.001 7
Texas 101 12943 0.000 5
Top States for LAURA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 173 5608 0.002 17
New Jersey 79 9874 0.001 9
New York 160 9568 0.001 8
Massachusetts 51 12118 0.001 8
Florida 119 12032 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 LAURA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LAURA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LAURA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LAURA by picking someone at random in Michigan than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LAURA

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

Ethnic distribution of LAURA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 332 21.91
Black/African American 98 6.47
Mixed Race 24 1.58
White (Caucasian) 1,033 68.18
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of LAURA in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAURA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAURA.

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 LAURA

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