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The LELAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,669 6671 0.002 17
United States (1880 census) 2,105 2846 0.004 42
Change since 1880 +2564 -3825 -0.002 -25
Other Countries
Australia 6 128845 0 0
United Kingdom 47 26319 0 1
Top States for LELAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 515 5295 0.002 15
Washington 333 2135 0.006 56
Florida 279 6767 0.002 17
Massachusetts 271 3074 0.004 43
Michigan 251 4643 0.003 25
Top States for LELAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 185 1298 0.015 145
Montana 79 1389 0.009 88
Washington 333 2135 0.006 56
Minnesota 231 2651 0.005 47
Massachusetts 271 3074 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of LELAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 348 7.45
White (Hispanic) 68 1.46
Mixed Race 52 1.11
Asian/Pacific 32 0.69
Native American/Alaskan 24 0.51
White (Caucasian) 4,145 88.78

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

Meaning of LELAND in historical publications

(origin: Local) Laland, an island in Denmark, the same as Leylande, the ancient manner of spelling the name, and denotes Low lands. In Welsh, Lle is a place, and Lan a church. Lan may signify any kind of inclosure, as Gwinlan, Perlan, an orchard, a word applied to gardens, houses, castles, or towns.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


LELAND. In the West, signifies a cowpasture, but it is also probably the name of some manor or estate.

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 LELAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LELAND.

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 LELAND

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