The LESPERANCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,714	10790	0.001	10
United States (1880 census)	97	32166	0	2
Change since 1880	+2617	+21376	+N/A	+8
Other Countries
Australia	6	129111	0	0
United Kingdom	8	31248	0	0

Top States for LESPERANCE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	400	2850	0.004	40
Wisconsin	256	2776	0.005	48
Massachusetts	253	3357	0.004	40
Florida	230	8134	0.001	14
New York	166	11273	0.001	9
Top States for LESPERANCE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Vermont	105	979	0.017	172
Rhode Island	85	1874	0.008	81
New Mexico	137	1263	0.008	75
Wisconsin	256	2776	0.005	48
New Hampshire	50	3469	0.004	40

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

Classification and Origin of LESPERANCE

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: France

Language of origin: French

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	213	7.85
White (Hispanic)	188	6.93
Mixed Race	61	2.25
Native American/Alaskan	28	1.03
Asian/Pacific	9	0.33
White (Caucasian)	2,215	81.61

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

Similar names to LESPERANCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LESPERANCE.

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.