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The LEON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 62,034 483 0.023 230
United States (1880 census) 1,091 5081 0.002 22
Change since 1880 +60943 +4598 +0.021 +208
Other Countries
Australia 334 4720 0.002 20
United Kingdom 672 7123 0.001 15
Top States for LEON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 18,511 171 0.055 547
Florida 9,504 212 0.059 595
Texas 4,890 635 0.023 235
New York 4,337 443 0.023 229
Arizona 3,535 154 0.069 689
Top States for LEON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Arizona 3,535 154 0.069 689
Florida 9,504 212 0.059 595
California 18,511 171 0.055 547
Nevada 885 293 0.044 443
New Jersey 2,249 398 0.027 267

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

Classification and Origin of LEON

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 720 1.16
Mixed Race 440 0.71
Native American/Alaskan 279 0.45
White (Hispanic) 50,651 81.65
White (Caucasian) 8,077 13.02
Black/African American 1,873 3.02

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

Meaning of LEON in historical publications

LEON. Spanish and Italian leone, a Lion.

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 LEON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEON.

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 LEON

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