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The surname Leatham

A surname, carried by 1,158 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L350

Leatham: #22,260 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Leatham #22,260, 1,158 people Leatham: #22,260 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Leatham #22,260, 1,158 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leatham is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,158 people named Leatham in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 266,620 Americans. That is up 9.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,054.

#22,260
rank among US surnames
1,158
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+9.9%
change since 2000 (was #22,745)

Who is named Leatham

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

89% of people named Leatham identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.5% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 89%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
  • Two or more races 3.5%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Leatham

Leatham has the Soundex code L350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L350.

Questions

How common is the surname Leatham?
1,158 people in the United States had the surname Leatham in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 266,620 Americans. It ranked 22,260th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leatham?
In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Leatham identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Leatham getting more or less common?
More common. 1,054 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,158 in 2010, up 9.9%.