The LEGG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,728	3362	0.004	36
United States (1880 census)	2,651	2305	0.005	53
Change since 1880	+7077	-1057	-0.001	-17
Other Countries
Australia	654	2476	0.004	40
United Kingdom	5,195	1208	0.011	113

Top States for LEGG by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,008	234	0.056	557
Ohio	1,005	1363	0.009	89
Florida	622	3364	0.004	39
Texas	488	4456	0.002	23
California	446	6377	0.001	13
Top States for LEGG by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
West Virginia	1,008	234	0.056	557
Alabama	417	1723	0.009	94
Ohio	1,005	1363	0.009	89
Idaho	94	1969	0.007	73
Tennessee	339	2451	0.006	60

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

Classification and Origin of LEGG

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	253	2.6
White (Hispanic)	123	1.26
Mixed Race	115	1.18
Native American/Alaskan	63	0.65
Asian/Pacific	37	0.38
White (Caucasian)	9,137	93.92

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

Similar names to LEGG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEGG.

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.