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    The surname Leister

    A surname, carried by 2,952 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex L236

    Leister: #10,800 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Leister #10,800, 2,952 people Leister: #10,800 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Leister #10,800, 2,952 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leister is more common than 93.3% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,952 people named Leister in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,589 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,948.

    #10,800
    rank among US surnames
    2,952
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.1%
    change since 2000 (was #10,081)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,792Turnbow2,955104,482
    #10,795Rothschild2,954104,518
    #10,797Coffelt2,953104,553
    #10,800Kesterson2,952104,589
    #10,803Giuliano2,951104,624
    #10,805Follett2,950104,660
    #10,806Mahaney2,949104,695

    Who is named Leister

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

    96% of people named Leister identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Leister

    Leister has the Soundex code L236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L236.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Leister?
    2,952 people in the United States had the surname Leister in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,589 Americans. It ranked 10,800th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Leister?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Leister identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Leister getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,948 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,952 in 2010, up 0.1%.