The LEONARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	89,198	308	0.033	331
United States (1880 census)	24,814	205	0.05	496
Change since 1880	+64384	-103	-0.017	-165
Other Countries
Australia	3,038	513	0.019	186
United Kingdom	11,251	532	0.024	245

Top States for LEONARD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	6,270	487	0.019	185
Florida	5,696	296	0.036	356
North Carolina	5,230	181	0.065	650
New York	4,953	296	0.026	261
Pennsylvania	4,772	213	0.039	389
Top States for LEONARD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	414	145	0.068	680
North Carolina	5,230	181	0.065	650
New Hampshire	735	176	0.059	595
Maine	745	289	0.058	584
Louisiana	2,531	217	0.057	566

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

Classification and Origin of LEONARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	669	0.75
Asian/Pacific	401	0.45
White (Caucasian)	73,669	82.59
Black/African American	11,721	13.14
Mixed Race	1,177	1.32
White (Hispanic)	1,561	1.75

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

Similar names to LEONARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEONARD.

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.