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The LAVIGNE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 6,881 4708 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 418 11105 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +6463 +6397 +0.002 +18
Other Countries
Australia 28 39964 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LAVIGNE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 665 1245 0.010 105
New York 612 2919 0.003 32
Michigan 591 1749 0.006 59
Louisiana 558 1090 0.012 125
Florida 463 4066 0.003 29
Top States for LAVIGNE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Vermont 191 432 0.031 314
New Hampshire 349 473 0.028 282
Maine 324 732 0.025 254
Louisiana 558 1090 0.012 125
Rhode Island 124 1159 0.012 118

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

Classification and Origin of LAVIGNE

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 LAVIGNE 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 LAVIGNE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 337 4.9
Mixed Race 124 1.8
White (Hispanic) 77 1.12
Asian/Pacific 42 0.61
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.42
White (Caucasian) 6,272 91.15

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

Meaning of LAVIGNE in historical publications

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

Similar names to LAVIGNE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LAVIGNE.

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 LAVIGNE

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