How common is the surname Leaver?

1,385 people in the United States had the surname Leaver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,921 Americans. It ranked 19,498th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Leaver?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Leaver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Leaver getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,385 in 2010, down 4.2%.

The surname Leaver

A surname, carried by 1,385 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L160

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leaver is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,385 people named Leaver in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,921 Americans. That is down 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,445.

#19,498

rank among US surnames

1,385

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

-4.2%

change since 2000 (was #17,859)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,489	Pulsifer	1,386	222,760
#19,498	Dubuque	1,385	222,921

Who is named Leaver

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

94% of people named Leaver identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Leaver

Leaver has the Soundex code L160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L160.

Questions

How common is the surname Leaver?: 1,385 people in the United States had the surname Leaver in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,921 Americans. It ranked 19,498th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leaver?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Leaver identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Leaver getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,445 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,385 in 2010, down 4.2%.