Last Name LARA

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Spanish, Chilean, Portuguese, Hungarian, Angolan

Rank	501 (2000 US census)	678 (1990 US census)

Count	59,731 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

6.28%, or 3751 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.42%, or 251 total occurrences, as black,
1.07%, or 639 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.36%, or 215 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.56%, or 334 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
91.3%, or 54534 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Double-barrelled surnames

Can you lose your identity in a double-barrelled surname?

So, you are getting married and thinking about creating a double-barrel surname from yours and your future spouse’s surnames. Maybe there is another reason you want that type of surname. Somethin...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...