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The LECKY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 344 55732 0 1
United States (1880 census) 76 37557 0 2
Change since 1880 +268 -18175 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 56 23212 0 3
United Kingdom 224 15374 0 5
Top States for LECKY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Jersey 47 17629 0.001 6
New York 38 39093 0.000 2
Virginia 34 14484 0.000 5
Florida 29 42351 0.000 2
Ohio 26 36640 0.000 2
Top States for LECKY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 21 19392 0.001 6
New Jersey 47 17629 0.001 6
Washington DC 3 16554 0.001 5
Delaware 4 25818 0.001 5
Virginia 34 14484 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of LECKY

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 LECKY 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 LECKY 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 LECKY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 197 57.27
Black/African American 128 37.21
Mixed Race 10 2.91
White (Hispanic) 8 2.33
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 LECKY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LECKY in historical publications

LECKY. The Leckys of Ireland are of Scotch extraction, and descend from a family so called in Stirlingshire, where in the parish of Gargunnoek an estate called Leckie is still to be found.

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 LECKY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LECKY.

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 LECKY

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