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The LEA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,597 3414 0.004 36
United States (1880 census) 2,864 2132 0.006 57
Change since 1880 +6733 -1282 -0.002 -21
Other Countries
Australia 1,045 1578 0.006 64
United Kingdom 6,827 921 0.015 149
Top States for LEA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 858 3705 0.003 25
Texas 853 2872 0.004 41
North Carolina 786 1636 0.010 98
Louisiana 503 1341 0.011 113
Florida 474 4554 0.003 30
Top States for LEA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arkansas 325 1164 0.012 122
Mississippi 340 1329 0.012 120
Louisiana 503 1341 0.011 113
North Carolina 786 1636 0.010 98
Missouri 414 1862 0.007 74

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

Classification and Origin of LEA

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LEA 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LEA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LEA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 540 5.63
White (Hispanic) 204 2.13
Mixed Race 182 1.9
Native American/Alaskan 77 0.8
White (Caucasian) 7,021 73.16
Black/African American 1,573 16.39

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

Meaning of LEA in historical publications

LEA. See lee.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LEA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEA.

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 LEA

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