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The LEYS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 488 41924 0 2
United States (1880 census) 50 49238 0 1
Change since 1880 +438 +7314 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 121 12072 0.001 7
United Kingdom 230 15114 0.001 5
Top States for LEYS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 91 13074 0.001 9
Florida 52 28357 0.000 3
California 44 45614 0.000 1
New York 38 43132 0.000 2
Wisconsin 35 23170 0.001 7
Top States for LEYS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Rhode Island 17 8154 0.002 16
Montana 12 11427 0.001 13
Michigan 91 13074 0.001 9
Wyoming 4 14999 0.001 8
Wisconsin 35 23170 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of LEYS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 411 84.22
Black/African American 53 10.86
White (Hispanic) 14 2.87
Mixed Race 9 1.84
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 LEYS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LEYS in historical publications

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

Similar names to LEYS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEYS.

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 LEYS

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