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    The surname Deleon

    A surname, carried by 87,414 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D450

    Deleon: #359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Deleon #359, 87,414 people Deleon: #359 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott Deleon #359, 87,414 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Deleon is more common than 99.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 87,414 people named Deleon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 3,532 Americans. That is up 33% since 2000, when the Census counted 65,598.

    #359
    rank among US surnames
    87,414
    people in 2010
    30
    per 100,000 Americans
    +33.3%
    change since 2000 (was #460)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #350Walters89,3763,454
    #351Cohen89,0913,466
    #352McDaniel88,7283,480
    #353Moran88,6153,484
    #354Parks88,5863,485
    #355Steele88,2303,499
    #356Vaughn88,0603,506

    Who is named Deleon

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    83% of people named Deleon identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 8.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 6.6% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 83%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 8.3%
    • White (not Hispanic) 6.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.0%
    • Two or more races 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Deleon

    Deleon has the Soundex code D450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D450.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Deleon?
    87,414 people in the United States had the surname Deleon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 3,532 Americans. It ranked 359th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Deleon?
    In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Deleon identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 8.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Deleon getting more or less common?
    More common. 65,598 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 87,414 in 2010, up 33%.