The LEIGHTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,297	3933	0.003	31
United States (1880 census)	3,352	1825	0.007	67
Change since 1880	+4945	-2108	-0.004	-36
Other Countries
Australia	973	1695	0.006	60
United Kingdom	5,053	1242	0.011	110

Top States for LEIGHTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,252	126	0.098	982
California	799	3652	0.002	24
Massachusetts	524	1687	0.008	83
Florida	493	4009	0.003	31
New York	384	4887	0.002	20
Top States for LEIGHTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	1,252	126	0.098	982
New Hampshire	305	585	0.025	247
South Dakota	70	1418	0.009	93
Massachusetts	524	1687	0.008	83
Washington	358	1994	0.006	61

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

Classification and Origin of LEIGHTON

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 LEIGHTON 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 LEIGHTON 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 LEIGHTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	157	1.89
Black/African American	135	1.63
Mixed Race	134	1.62
Native American/Alaskan	87	1.05
Asian/Pacific	40	0.48
White (Caucasian)	7,744	93.33

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

Similar names to LEIGHTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEIGHTON.

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.