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The LESSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 188 91004 0 1
United States (1880 census) 46 51728 0 1
Change since 1880 +142 -39276 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 1 378676 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LESSEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 69 22322 0.000 4
Florida 26 46365 0.000 2
North Carolina 17 22441 0.000 2
Maryland 14 29686 0.000 3
California 12 132213 0.000 0
Top States for LESSEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 12 13396 0.001 5
Delaware 3 32460 0.000 4
New York 69 22322 0.000 4
Washington DC 2 25981 0.000 3
Maryland 14 29686 0.000 3

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

Classification and Origin of LESSEY

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the LESSEY surname.

Ethnic distribution of LESSEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 111 59.04
White (Caucasian) 71 37.77
White (Hispanic) 5 2.66
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0

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

LESSEY is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of LESSEY in historical publications

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

Similar names to LESSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LESSEY.

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 LESSEY

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