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The MACLEOD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,542 4353 0.003 28
United States (1880 census) 48 50227 0 1
Change since 1880 +7494 +45874 +N/A +27
Other Countries
Australia 1,616 1009 0.01 99
United Kingdom 13,266 446 0.029 289
Top States for MACLEOD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,326 543 0.021 209
California 847 3212 0.003 25
Florida 613 2959 0.004 38
New York 461 3710 0.002 24
Michigan 414 2449 0.004 42
Top States for MACLEOD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 360 616 0.028 282
Massachusetts 1,326 543 0.021 209
New Hampshire 241 694 0.020 195
Vermont 65 1487 0.011 107
Rhode Island 87 1627 0.008 83

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

Classification and Origin of MACLEOD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MACLEOD 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.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MACLEOD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MACLEOD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 107 1.42
Mixed Race 85 1.13
Black/African American 46 0.61
Asian/Pacific 39 0.52
Native American/Alaskan 18 0.24
White (Caucasian) 7,247 96.09

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

Meaning of MACLEOD in historical publications

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

Similar names to MACLEOD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MACLEOD.

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 MACLEOD

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