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The LEECH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,945 6340 0.002 18
United States (1880 census) 3,042 2001 0.006 61
Change since 1880 +1903 -4339 -0.004 -43
Other Countries
Australia 1,045 1579 0.006 64
United Kingdom 5,891 1069 0.013 128
Top States for LEECH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 607 2420 0.005 49
California 339 7744 0.001 10
Florida 264 7132 0.002 17
Texas 262 7050 0.001 13
Michigan 231 5089 0.002 23
Top States for LEECH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 607 2420 0.005 49
Mississippi 107 3054 0.004 38
Oregon 124 3441 0.004 36
Rhode Island 37 4136 0.004 35
Colorado 140 3836 0.003 33

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

Classification and Origin of LEECH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 174 3.52
White (Hispanic) 59 1.19
Mixed Race 46 0.93
Asian/Pacific 31 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.47
White (Caucasian) 4,612 93.27

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

Meaning of LEECH in historical publications

LEECH. A Sax. lace, a physician.

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 LEECH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEECH.

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 LEECH

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