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The LEIGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 9,756 3350 0.004 36
United States (1880 census) 2,167 2786 0.004 43
Change since 1880 +7589 -564 0 -7
Other Countries
Australia 1,122 1472 0.007 69
United Kingdom 8,762 688 0.019 191
Top States for LEIGH by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 849 3426 0.003 25
Florida 647 3062 0.004 40
Texas 606 3588 0.003 29
Illinois 538 2294 0.004 43
New York 489 3819 0.003 26
Top States for LEIGH by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Virginia 482 1841 0.007 68
Kentucky 272 1979 0.007 67
Washington 359 1971 0.006 61
Colorado 253 2112 0.006 59
Idaho 75 2349 0.006 58

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

Classification and Origin of LEIGH

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 LEIGH 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 LEIGH 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 LEIGH in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 183 1.88
Mixed Race 183 1.88
White (Hispanic) 162 1.66
Native American/Alaskan 48 0.49
White (Caucasian) 7,834 80.3
Black/African American 1,346 13.8

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

Meaning of LEIGH in historical publications

LEIGH. LEGH. An eminent Cheshire family, who for centuries have been of High Leigh, in that co., and from whom nearly all the gentry families of the name claim

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 LEIGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEIGH.

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 LEIGH

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