How common is the surname Leggio?

1,048 people in the United States had the surname Leggio in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 294,605 Americans. It ranked 24,049th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Leggio?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Leggio identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Leggio getting more or less common?

More common. 1,016 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,048 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Leggio

An Italian surname, carried by 1,048 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leggio is more common than 85.2% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Leggio.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,048 people named Leggio in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 294,605 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,016.

#24,049

rank among US surnames

1,048

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #23,350)

Who is named Leggio

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

93% of people named Leggio identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Leggio

Leggio has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Leggio come from?: Borrowed from Italian Leggio.
How common is the surname Leggio?: 1,048 people in the United States had the surname Leggio in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 294,605 Americans. It ranked 24,049th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leggio?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Leggio identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Leggio getting more or less common?: More common. 1,016 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,048 in 2010, up 3.1%.