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The LEAHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 10,515 3144 0.004 39
United States (1880 census) 2,181 2769 0.004 44
Change since 1880 +8334 -375 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 1,733 938 0.011 106
United Kingdom 2,496 2449 0.005 54
Top States for LEAHY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,320 586 0.021 208
New York 1,108 1520 0.006 58
Illinois 785 1489 0.006 63
California 784 3553 0.002 23
New Jersey 588 1417 0.007 70
Top States for LEAHY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,320 586 0.021 208
New Hampshire 152 1190 0.012 123
Maine 100 2106 0.008 78
Rhode Island 82 1843 0.008 78
Vermont 45 2142 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 LEAHY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LEAHY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LEAHY in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LEAHY by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LEAHY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LEAHY 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 LEAHY 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 LEAHY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 154 1.46
Mixed Race 135 1.28
Asian/Pacific 49 0.47
Black/African American 34 0.32
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.23
White (Caucasian) 10,119 96.23

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

Meaning of LEAHY in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LEAHY.

Similar names to LEAHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEAHY.

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 LEAHY

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