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    The surname Leasure

    A surname, carried by 4,210 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L260

    Leasure: #7,859 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Leasure #7,859, 4,210 people Leasure: #7,859 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Leasure #7,859, 4,210 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leasure is more common than 95.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,210 people named Leasure in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,336 Americans. That is up 3.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,078.

    #7,859
    rank among US surnames
    4,210
    people in 2010
    1.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.2%
    change since 2000 (was #7,525)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,856Seltzer4,21373,284
    #7,857Borkowski4,21273,301
    #7,858Florio4,21173,319
    #7,859Leasure4,21073,336

    Who is named Leasure

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

    93% of people named Leasure identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Leasure

    Leasure has the Soundex code L260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L260.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Leasure?
    4,210 people in the United States had the surname Leasure in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,336 Americans. It ranked 7,859th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Leasure?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Leasure identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Leasure getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,078 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,210 in 2010, up 3.2%.