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The LAUREL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,775 15217 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 47 51183 0 1
Change since 1880 +1728 +35966 +N/A +6
Other Countries
Australia 27 41789 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAUREL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 662 3617 0.003 32
California 319 8844 0.001 9
Florida 82 21222 0.001 5
New York 82 23567 0.000 4
New Jersey 60 17287 0.001 7
Top States for LAUREL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 662 3617 0.003 32
Nevada 29 8241 0.001 15
Connecticut 33 14942 0.001 10
California 319 8844 0.001 9
Arizona 40 13782 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of LAUREL

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

Ethnic distribution of LAUREL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 849 47.83
White (Caucasian) 409 23.04
Asian/Pacific 296 16.68
Black/African American 173 9.75
Mixed Race 41 2.31
Native American/Alaskan 7 0.39

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

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

Meaning of LAUREL in historical publications

LAUREL. One can hardly deduce this name from the beautiful tree which furnishes forth the victor's crown ; a much likelier derivation is from the A. -Norm, lord, a bad, worthless, fellow. ' Cocke Lorel ' was for

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LAUREL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAUREL.

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 LAUREL

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