Find out how popular the last name Lauda is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Lauda.

Lauda, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Lauda surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Lauda in America

Lauda is the 124548th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Lauda surname appeared 138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Lauda.

We can also compare 2010 data for Lauda to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Lauda

The surname Lauda is of German origin and can be traced back to the Middle Ages. It is derived from the Old High German word "laut," which means "loud" or "noisy." This suggests that the name may have been initially given as a nickname to someone with a loud voice or perhaps a boisterous personality.

In the 12th century, the name Lauda appears in various records and manuscripts from the regions of Bavaria and Saxony in Germany. One of the earliest recorded instances is found in the Codex Traditionum Monasterii Sancti Emmerami, a medieval cartulary from the Benedictine monastery of St. Emmeram in Regensburg, which mentions a person named "Ludewicus dictus Lauda" (Ludwig called Lauda) in the year 1178.

The name Lauda is also linked to several place names in Germany, such as Laudenbach, a town in the district of Rhein-Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, and Lauterbach, a town in the Vogelsberg district of Hesse. These place names may have influenced the spelling and spread of the surname in different regions.

One notable bearer of the surname Lauda was Konrad von Lauda (c. 1180-1242), a German knight and ministerialis (unfree servant of a secular lord) who served under the Counts of Leiningen in the 13th century. Another early reference is found in the Chronica Principum Saxoniae, a 14th-century chronicle, which mentions a "Rudolphus Lauda" from Saxony in the year 1312.

In the 15th century, the name appears in the records of the University of Heidelberg, with a student named "Johannes Lauda" enrolled in 1461. During the same period, a German poet and humanist named Jakob Locher Philomusus (1470-1528) used the pseudonym "Jacobus Lauda" in some of his works.

Other notable individuals with the surname Lauda include the Austrian racing driver Niki Lauda (1949-2019), who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship three times, and the German Protestant theologian Theodor Ernst Lauda (1805-1884), who served as a professor at the University of Marburg.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Lauda

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Lauda.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Lauda was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Lauda has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Lauda was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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