How common is the surname Leiker?

1,973 people in the United States had the surname Leiker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,485 Americans. It ranked 14,979th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Leiker?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Leiker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Leiker getting more or less common?

More common. 1,734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,973 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Leiker

A surname, carried by 1,973 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L260

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leiker is more common than 90.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,973 people named Leiker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 156,485 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,734.

#14,979

rank among US surnames

1,973

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+13.8%

change since 2000 (was #15,500)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,970	Hagopian	1,975	156,327
#14,976	Charland	1,974	156,406
#14,979	Traore	1,973	156,485
#14,986	Fuentez	1,972	156,565

Who is named Leiker

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

95% of people named Leiker identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Leiker

Leiker has the Soundex code L260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L260.

Questions

How common is the surname Leiker?: 1,973 people in the United States had the surname Leiker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 156,485 Americans. It ranked 14,979th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leiker?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Leiker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Leiker getting more or less common?: More common. 1,734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,973 in 2010, up 14%.