The Lapointe surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,894 people carried this name — #3,995 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 33,100 people counted. That is up 4% from 8,525 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 603 people named Lapointe.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 46 départements, most often Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
30 people named Lapointe live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Lapointe in American newspapers,
1896–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 8,571 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Lapointe,
with a public archive behind them.
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Savinien Lapointe 1812–1893 · poet -
Alexis Lapointe 1860–1924 · athletics competitor -
Eugène Lapointe 1860–1947 · Catholic priest -
Ernest Lapointe 1876–1941 · lawyer -
Jeanne Lapointe 1915–2006 · university teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 171 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lapointe.
- Lapin 784 · U.S. census
- Lapina 186 · U.S. census
- Lapine 1,157 · U.S. census
- Laplace 533 · U.S. census
- Laplante 7,195 · U.S. census
- Laplume 512 · U.S. census
- Laporta 1,540 · U.S. census
- Laporte 7,528 · U.S. census
- Lapp 7,761 · U.S. census
- Laprade 2,067 · U.S. census
- Lapray 179 · U.S. census
- Lapre 463 · U.S. census
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