The LEAHY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	10,515	3144	0.004	39
United States (1880 census)	2,181	2769	0.004	44
Change since 1880	+8334	-375	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	1,733	938	0.011	106
United Kingdom	2,496	2449	0.005	54

Top States for LEAHY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,320	586	0.021	208
New York	1,108	1520	0.006	58
Illinois	785	1489	0.006	63
California	784	3553	0.002	23
New Jersey	588	1417	0.007	70
Top States for LEAHY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	1,320	586	0.021	208
New Hampshire	152	1190	0.012	123
Maine	100	2106	0.008	78
Rhode Island	82	1843	0.008	78
Vermont	45	2142	0.007	74

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

Classification and Origin of LEAHY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	154	1.46
Mixed Race	135	1.28
Asian/Pacific	49	0.47
Black/African American	34	0.32
Native American/Alaskan	24	0.23
White (Caucasian)	10,119	96.23

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

Similar names to LEAHY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEAHY.

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.