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    The surname Leitz

    A German nickname surname, carried by 996 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L320

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leitz is more common than 84.6% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    As a German or Dutch surname, from the personal name Leutz, a pet form of any of various Germanic compound names formed with liut (“tribe, people”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *liudiz.

    Leitz is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 996 people named Leitz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 309,985 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,131.

    #24,961
    rank among US surnames
    996
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    -11.9%
    change since 2000 (was #21,526)

    Who is named Leitz

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

    96% of people named Leitz identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as two or more races and 1.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    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

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Leitz

    Leitz has the Soundex code L320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L320.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Leitz come from?
    As a German or Dutch surname, from the personal name Leutz, a pet form of any of various Germanic compound names formed with liut (“tribe, people”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *liudiz.
    How common is the surname Leitz?
    996 people in the United States had the surname Leitz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 309,985 Americans. It ranked 24,961st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Leitz?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Leitz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Leitz?
    Leitz is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Leitz getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,131 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 996 in 2010, down 12%.