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The surname Leard

A surname, carried by 1,170 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L630

Leard: #22,113 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Leard #22,113, 1,170 people Leard: #22,113 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Leard #22,113, 1,170 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leard is more common than 86.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,170 people named Leard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 263,885 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,031.

#22,113
rank among US surnames
1,170
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+13.5%
change since 2000 (was #23,128)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#22,106Cebula1,171263,660
#22,113Mansoor1,170263,885

Who is named Leard

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

86% of people named Leard identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 86%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.7%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.4%
  • Two or more races 2.1%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Leard

Leard has the Soundex code L630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L630.

Questions

How common is the surname Leard?
1,170 people in the United States had the surname Leard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 263,885 Americans. It ranked 22,113th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leard?
In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Leard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Leard getting more or less common?
More common. 1,031 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,170 in 2010, up 14%.