The LEIGH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,756	3350	0.004	36
United States (1880 census)	2,167	2786	0.004	43
Change since 1880	+7589	-564	0	-7
Other Countries
Australia	1,122	1472	0.007	69
United Kingdom	8,762	688	0.019	191

Top States for LEIGH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	849	3426	0.003	25
Florida	647	3062	0.004	40
Texas	606	3588	0.003	29
Illinois	538	2294	0.004	43
New York	489	3819	0.003	26
Top States for LEIGH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Virginia	482	1841	0.007	68
Kentucky	272	1979	0.007	67
Washington	359	1971	0.006	61
Colorado	253	2112	0.006	59
Idaho	75	2349	0.006	58

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

Classification and Origin of LEIGH

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 LEIGH 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 LEIGH 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 LEIGH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	183	1.88
Mixed Race	183	1.88
White (Hispanic)	162	1.66
Native American/Alaskan	48	0.49
White (Caucasian)	7,834	80.3
Black/African American	1,346	13.8

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

Similar names to LEIGH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEIGH.

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.