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The LEONG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,967 4119 0.003 30
United States (1880 census) 199 19362 0 4
Change since 1880 +7768 +15243 +N/A +26
Other Countries
Australia 1,596 1020 0.01 98
United Kingdom 521 8593 0.001 11
Top States for LEONG by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,533 925 0.010 104
Hawaii 947 37 0.078 782
New York 918 2083 0.005 48
New Jersey 269 3670 0.003 32
Texas 213 8686 0.001 10
Top States for LEONG by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 947 37 0.078 782
California 3,533 925 0.010 104
Nevada 114 2129 0.006 57
New York 918 2083 0.005 48
Oregon 134 3340 0.004 39

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

Classification and Origin of LEONG

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

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

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 509 6.39
White (Caucasian) 458 5.75
White (Hispanic) 154 1.93
Black/African American 23 0.29
Asian/Pacific 6,818 85.58
Native American/Alaskan 5 0.06

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

Meaning of LEONG in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LEONG.

Similar names to LEONG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEONG.

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 LEONG

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