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The LEO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,638 4296 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 871 6116 0.002 17
Change since 1880 +6767 +1820 +0.001 +11
Other Countries
Australia 654 2477 0.004 40
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LEO by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,473 1176 0.008 78
Pennsylvania 657 2220 0.005 53
California 627 4470 0.002 19
Florida 535 3708 0.003 33
New Jersey 481 1853 0.006 57
Top States for LEO by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 132 1711 0.010 104
Vermont 59 1758 0.010 97
New York 1,473 1176 0.008 78
Massachusetts 393 2192 0.006 62
Connecticut 202 2121 0.006 59

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

Classification and Origin of LEO

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Italy

Language of origin: Italian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LEO 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.

Ethnic distribution of LEO in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 675 8.84
White (Hispanic) 448 5.87
Black/African American 267 3.5
Mixed Race 193 2.53
Native American/Alaskan 65 0.85
White (Caucasian) 5,990 78.42

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

Meaning of LEO in historical publications

LEO. The Latin form of Lion.

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 LEO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEO.

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 LEO

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