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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

'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.

Meaning of LESPERANCE in historical publications

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

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.

Potential typos for LESPERANCE

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