The LESSER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,649	8343	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	516	9399	0.001	10
Change since 1880	+3133	+1056	0	+4
Other Countries
Australia	34	34333	0	2
United Kingdom	208	16078	0	5

Top States for LESSER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	635	2868	0.003	33
California	398	6585	0.001	12
Florida	362	5218	0.002	23
New Jersey	277	3301	0.003	33
Pennsylvania	196	7281	0.002	16
Top States for LESSER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Colorado	186	2827	0.004	43
New York	635	2868	0.003	33
New Jersey	277	3301	0.003	33
Wyoming	14	4694	0.003	28
Washington DC	15	3537	0.003	26

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of LESSER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	66	1.81
Black/African American	40	1.1
Asian/Pacific	26	0.71
Mixed Race	26	0.71
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.41
White (Caucasian)	3,476	95.26

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

Similar names to LESSER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LESSER.

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.