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    The surname Leask

    A place surname, carried by 571 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leask is more common than 76.2% of them.

    Origin

    Scottish habitational surname from a place now called Pitlurg, in Aberdeenshire.

    Leask is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 571 people named Leask in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 540,710 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 562.

    #38,691
    rank among US surnames
    571
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.6%
    change since 2000 (was #37,319)

    Who is named Leask

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

    67% of people named Leask identified as white (not Hispanic), 22% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 6.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 67%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 22%
    • Two or more races 6.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Leask

    Leask has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Leask come from?
    Scottish habitational surname from a place now called Pitlurg, in Aberdeenshire.
    How common is the surname Leask?
    571 people in the United States had the surname Leask in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 540,710 Americans. It ranked 38,691st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Leask?
    In the 2010 Census, 67% of people named Leask identified as white (not Hispanic), and 22% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
    What type of surname is Leask?
    Leask is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Leask getting more or less common?
    More common. 562 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 571 in 2010, up 1.6%.
    What are other spellings of Leask?
    Leisk and Lusk.