How common is the surname Leap?

1,217 people in the United States had the surname Leap in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,694 Americans. It ranked 21,470th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Leap?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Leap identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Leap getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,265 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,217 in 2010, down 3.8%.

The surname Leap

A surname, carried by 1,217 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leap is more common than 86.8% of them.

Origin

Scottish and English surname, from the noun leap (“basket”). Compare Leeper.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,217 people named Leap in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 253,694 Americans. That is down 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,265.

#21,470

rank among US surnames

1,217

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-3.8%

change since 2000 (was #19,710)

Who is named Leap

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

92% of people named Leap identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Asian and Pacific Islander 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Leap

Leap has the Soundex code L100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L100.

Questions

Where does the surname Leap come from?: Scottish and English surname, from the noun leap (“basket”). Compare Leeper.
How common is the surname Leap?: 1,217 people in the United States had the surname Leap in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 253,694 Americans. It ranked 21,470th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leap?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Leap identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Leap getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,265 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,217 in 2010, down 3.8%.