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The LEAL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 28,248 1133 0.01 105
United States (1880 census) 454 10452 0.001 9
Change since 1880 +27794 +9319 +0.009 +96
Other Countries
Australia 240 6398 0.001 15
United Kingdom 318 12269 0.001 7
Top States for LEAL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 12,168 230 0.058 584
California 5,948 643 0.018 176
Florida 2,138 1172 0.013 134
Illinois 905 1698 0.007 73
Arizona 764 962 0.015 149
Top States for LEAL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 12,168 230 0.058 584
California 5,948 643 0.018 176
Arizona 764 962 0.015 149
Florida 2,138 1172 0.013 134
Colorado 474 1417 0.011 110

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

Classification and Origin of LEAL

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 LEAL 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 LEAL 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 LEAL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 305 1.08
Asian/Pacific 251 0.89
Black/African American 161 0.57
Native American/Alaskan 76 0.27
White (Hispanic) 23,451 83.02
White (Caucasian) 4,003 14.17

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

Meaning of LEAL in historical publications

LEAL. LEALL. L O. Fr. and Scot.,

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 LEAL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEAL.

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 LEAL

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