How common is the surname Lehew?

1,119 people in the United States had the surname Lehew in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 275,912 Americans. It ranked 22,880th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lehew?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Lehew identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lehew getting more or less common?

More common. 1,037 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,119 in 2010, up 7.9%.

The surname Lehew

A surname, carried by 1,119 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lehew is more common than 85.9% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,119 people named Lehew in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 275,912 Americans. That is up 7.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,037.

#22,880

rank among US surnames

1,119

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+7.9%

change since 2000 (was #23,019)

Who is named Lehew

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

93% of people named Lehew identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

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 Lehew

Lehew has the Soundex code L000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L000.

Questions

How common is the surname Lehew?: 1,119 people in the United States had the surname Lehew in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 275,912 Americans. It ranked 22,880th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lehew?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Lehew identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lehew getting more or less common?: More common. 1,037 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,119 in 2010, up 7.9%.