The LEARY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	15,127	2203	0.006	56
United States (1880 census)	6,260	975	0.013	125
Change since 1880	+8867	-1228	-0.007	-69
Other Countries
Australia	924	1776	0.006	57
United Kingdom	2,047	2902	0.004	45

Top States for LEARY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,177	346	0.034	343
New York	1,200	1521	0.006	63
California	973	3187	0.003	29
North Carolina	919	1348	0.011	114
Florida	883	2330	0.006	55
Top States for LEARY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Massachusetts	2,177	346	0.034	343
New Hampshire	310	598	0.025	251
Vermont	112	943	0.018	184
Maine	213	1177	0.017	167
Rhode Island	169	888	0.016	161

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

Classification and Origin of LEARY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	191	1.26
Mixed Race	165	1.09
Asian/Pacific	110	0.73
Native American/Alaskan	26	0.17
White (Caucasian)	12,574	83.12
Black/African American	2,060	13.62

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

Similar names to LEARY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEARY.

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.