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The LEES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,501 5763 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,455 3943 0.003 29
Change since 1880 +4046 -1820 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 2,552 623 0.016 156
United Kingdom 12,600 468 0.027 274
Top States for LEES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 609 2473 0.005 50
California 538 5240 0.002 16
Florida 415 4811 0.003 26
Ohio 340 4067 0.003 30
Massachusetts 302 2881 0.005 48
Top States for LEES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 54 2957 0.005 52
New Hampshire 62 2921 0.005 50
Pennsylvania 609 2473 0.005 50
Massachusetts 302 2881 0.005 48
Montana 37 3596 0.004 41

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

Classification and Origin of LEES

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 LEES 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 LEES 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 LEES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 82 1.49
Black/African American 71 1.29
Asian/Pacific 69 1.25
Mixed Race 59 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.53
White (Caucasian) 5,191 94.36

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

Meaning of LEES in historical publications

LEES. LEESE. Places in cos. Lancaster, Stafford, Chester, and an estate at Eccles, CO. Berwick.

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 LEES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEES.

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 LEES

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