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The LEEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 921 25242 0 3
United States (1880 census) 204 19058 0 4
Change since 1880 +717 -6184 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 36 33067 0 2
United Kingdom 137 20527 0 3
Top States for LEEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 97 8457 0.002 20
Ohio 97 14351 0.001 9
California 90 26952 0.000 3
Washington 80 9735 0.001 14
Maine 65 3280 0.005 51
Top States for LEEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 65 3280 0.005 51
North Dakota 20 6195 0.003 31
Minnesota 97 8457 0.002 20
Idaho 24 8153 0.002 19
Washington 80 9735 0.001 14

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

Classification and Origin of LEEN

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 LEEN 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 LEEN 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 LEEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 834 90.55
White (Hispanic) 25 2.71
Black/African American 22 2.39
Asian/Pacific 18 1.95
Mixed Race 17 1.85
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.54

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

Meaning of LEEN in historical publications

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

Similar names to LEEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEEN.

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 LEEN

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