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    The surname Leavy

    A surname, carried by 2,138 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L100

    Leavy: #14,070 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Leavy #14,070, 2,138 people Leavy: #14,070 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Leavy #14,070, 2,138 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leavy is more common than 91.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,138 people named Leavy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 144,409 Americans. That is up 1.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,111.

    #14,070
    rank among US surnames
    2,138
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.3%
    change since 2000 (was #13,256)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,062Calhoon2,141144,206
    #14,064Frison2,140144,274
    #14,067Castiglione2,139144,341
    #14,070Mazon2,138144,409
    #14,076Ellefson2,137144,476

    Who is named Leavy

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

    61% of people named Leavy identified as white (not Hispanic), 34% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 61%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 34%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • 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 Leavy

    Leavy has the Soundex code L100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L100.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Leavy?
    2,138 people in the United States had the surname Leavy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 144,409 Americans. It ranked 14,070th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Leavy?
    In the 2010 Census, 61% of people named Leavy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 34% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Leavy getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,111 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,138 in 2010, up 1.3%.