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The LENOIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,247 9236 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 200 19314 0 4
Change since 1880 +3047 +10078 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 18 56570 0 1
United Kingdom 64 25437 0 1
Top States for LENOIR by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 471 997 0.017 166
California 255 10627 0.001 8
Texas 249 7835 0.001 12
Alabama 227 2859 0.005 51
Illinois 222 6148 0.002 18
Top States for LENOIR by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Mississippi 471 997 0.017 166
Delaware 58 2519 0.007 74
North Dakota 43 2666 0.007 67
Alabama 227 2859 0.005 51
Louisiana 197 3049 0.004 44

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

Classification and Origin of LENOIR

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 LENOIR 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 LENOIR in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Native American/Alaskan 108 3.33
Mixed Race 91 2.8
White (Hispanic) 50 1.54
Asian/Pacific 5 0.15
Black/African American 1,698 52.29
White (Caucasian) 1,295 39.88

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

Meaning of LENOIR in historical publications

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

Similar names to LENOIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LENOIR.

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 LENOIR

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