The LEROY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	7,579	4338	0.003	28
United States (1880 census)	1,814	3265	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+5765	-1073	-0.001	-8
Other Countries
Australia	96	14769	0.001	6
United Kingdom	219	15539	0	5

Top States for LEROY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	771	2568	0.004	41
California	739	4161	0.002	22
Florida	595	3609	0.004	37
Wisconsin	410	1687	0.008	76
Texas	409	5247	0.002	20
Top States for LEROY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	410	1687	0.008	76
South Carolina	252	2482	0.006	63
Arizona	233	2754	0.005	45
Utah	96	3055	0.004	43
New York	771	2568	0.004	41

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

Classification and Origin of LEROY

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

Name derivation: From given name or forename

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	873	11.52
White (Hispanic)	270	3.56
Native American/Alaskan	146	1.93
Mixed Race	118	1.56
Asian/Pacific	43	0.57
White (Caucasian)	6,129	80.87

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

Similar names to LEROY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEROY.

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.