The LEECH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,945	6340	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	3,042	2001	0.006	61
Change since 1880	+1903	-4339	-0.004	-43
Other Countries
Australia	1,045	1579	0.006	64
United Kingdom	5,891	1069	0.013	128

Top States for LEECH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	607	2420	0.005	49
California	339	7744	0.001	10
Florida	264	7132	0.002	17
Texas	262	7050	0.001	13
Michigan	231	5089	0.002	23
Top States for LEECH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	607	2420	0.005	49
Mississippi	107	3054	0.004	38
Oregon	124	3441	0.004	36
Rhode Island	37	4136	0.004	35
Colorado	140	3836	0.003	33

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

Classification and Origin of LEECH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	174	3.52
White (Hispanic)	59	1.19
Mixed Race	46	0.93
Asian/Pacific	31	0.63
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.47
White (Caucasian)	4,612	93.27

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

Similar names to LEECH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEECH.

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.