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The LEEDS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,714 8214 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 1,232 4579 0.002 25
Change since 1880 +2482 -3635 -0.001 -11
Other Countries
Australia 211 7183 0.001 13
United Kingdom 619 7613 0.001 13
Top States for LEEDS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 474 5583 0.001 14
Florida 402 4708 0.003 25
New Jersey 364 2416 0.004 43
New York 363 4983 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 148 9457 0.001 12
Top States for LEEDS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Montana 40 3005 0.004 44
New Jersey 364 2416 0.004 43
Vermont 22 4121 0.004 36
Idaho 40 4342 0.003 31
New Hampshire 35 4522 0.003 28

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

Classification and Origin of LEEDS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 73 1.97
Native American/Alaskan 51 1.37
Mixed Race 47 1.27
Asian/Pacific 25 0.67
Black/African American 22 0.59
White (Caucasian) 3,496 94.13

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

Meaning of LEEDS in historical publications

LEEDS. The great town in Yorkshire.

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 LEEDS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEEDS.

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 LEEDS

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