Lenoir

At the 2020 census, 3,477 Americans bore the surname Lenoir — 9,021st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 86,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,477
Rank: 9,021st
How common: 1 in 86,000
Per 100,000: 1.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lenoir described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 52.9%
White, not Hispanic 33.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Lenoir

Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900)Belgian engineer
William B. Lenoir (1939–2010)American astronaut
Noémie Lenoir (born 1979)model and actress
J. B. Lenoir (1929–1967)African American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter
Alexandre Lenoir (1761–1839)French archaeologist
Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860–1926)French painter

People named Lenoir with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lenoir

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.