How common is the surname Lehto?

1,466 people in the United States had the surname Lehto in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 210,604 Americans. It ranked 18,729th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lehto?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lehto identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Lehto getting more or less common?

More common. 1,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,466 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Lehto

A Finnish surname, carried by 1,466 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lehto is more common than 88.5% of them.

Origin

Finnish origin

From Finnish Lehto.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,466 people named Lehto in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 210,604 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,462.

#18,729

rank among US surnames

1,466

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #17,685)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,724	Clyne	1,467	210,460
#18,729	Woodmansee	1,466	210,604
#18,734	Danks	1,465	210,748

Who is named Lehto

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

94% of people named Lehto identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Two or more races 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lehto

Lehto has the Soundex code L300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L300.

Questions

Where does the surname Lehto come from?: From Finnish Lehto.
How common is the surname Lehto?: 1,466 people in the United States had the surname Lehto in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 210,604 Americans. It ranked 18,729th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lehto?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Lehto identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Lehto getting more or less common?: More common. 1,462 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,466 in 2010, up 0.3%.