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The LESSA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 421 47389 0 2
United States (1880 census) 1 110772 0 0
Change since 1880 +420 +63383 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 4 33550 0 0
Top States for LESSA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 77 10393 0.001 12
California 72 31294 0.000 2
Florida 61 26416 0.000 4
New York 50 36446 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 27 49384 0.000 2
Top States for LESSA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 13 11294 0.001 12
Massachusetts 77 10393 0.001 12
Hawaii 5 21999 0.000 4
Florida 61 26416 0.000 4
Arizona 17 30866 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of LESSA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LESSA 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.

Ethnic distribution of LESSA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 338 80.29
White (Hispanic) 36 8.55
Mixed Race 35 8.31
Black/African American 6 1.43
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of LESSA in historical publications

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

Similar names to LESSA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LESSA.

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 LESSA

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