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The LEGGAT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 253 71808 0 1
United States (1880 census) 47 50799 0 1
Change since 1880 +206 -21009 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 75 18339 0 5
United Kingdom 581 7989 0.001 13
Top States for LEGGAT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 33 24193 0.001 5
Michigan 27 47165 0.000 3
Pennsylvania 23 61093 0.000 2
New York 22 82541 0.000 1
California 19 109136 0.000 1
Top States for LEGGAT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 18 11897 0.001 8
Massachusetts 33 24193 0.001 5
Michigan 27 47165 0.000 3
Missouri 15 36587 0.000 3
Virginia 18 30556 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of LEGGAT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Status Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 247 97.63
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American None reported 0
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) None reported 0

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

Meaning of LEGGAT in historical publications

LEGGAT. Lat. legatns, a legate, ambassador. At the date of the Domesday survey, Hervey Legatus was a tenant in capite in co. Bucks, and Richard Legatus had the same tenure in co. Gloucester.

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 LEGGAT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEGGAT.

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 LEGGAT

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