The surname Legan
A surname, carried by 1,042 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex L250
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,042 people named Legan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 296,301 Americans. That is down 3.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,074.
#24,137
rank among US surnames
1,042
people in 2010
0.3
per 100,000 Americans
-3%
change since 2000 (was #22,370)
Who is named Legan
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
91% of people named Legan identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 91%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 0.8%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Legan has the Soundex code L250, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L250.
Questions
- How common is the surname Legan?
- 1,042 people in the United States had the surname Legan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 296,301 Americans. It ranked 24,137th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Legan?
- In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Legan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Legan getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,074 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,042 in 2010, down 3.0%.