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    The surname Leverette

    A surname, carried by 2,958 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L163

    Leverette: #10,782 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Leverette #10,782, 2,958 people Leverette: #10,782 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Leverette #10,782, 2,958 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leverette is more common than 93.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,958 people named Leverette in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 104,376 Americans. That is up 8.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,722.

    #10,782
    rank among US surnames
    2,958
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.7%
    change since 2000 (was #10,757)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,777Petrosky2,960104,306
    #10,779Collin2,959104,341
    #10,782Lama2,958104,376
    #10,787Sergent2,957104,412
    #10,790Beesley2,956104,447

    Who is named Leverette

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

    58% of people named Leverette identified as Black (not Hispanic), 38% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.

    • Black (not Hispanic) 58%
    • White (not Hispanic) 38%
    • Two or more races 2.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Leverette

    Leverette has the Soundex code L163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L163.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Leverette?
    2,958 people in the United States had the surname Leverette in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 104,376 Americans. It ranked 10,782nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Leverette?
    In the 2010 Census, 58% of people named Leverette identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 38% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Leverette getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,722 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,958 in 2010, up 8.7%.