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    The surname Vanderleest

    A Dutch place surname, carried by 538 people in the United States.

    4 syllables Soundex V536

    Vanderleest: #40,610 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Vanderleest #40,610, 538 people Vanderleest: #40,610 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Vanderleest #40,610, 538 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Vanderleest is more common than 75% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    Borrowed from Dutch van der Leest, a habitational surname from a place called Leest.

    Vanderleest is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 538 people named Vanderleest in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. That is up 7.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 503.

    #40,610
    rank among US surnames
    538
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +7%
    change since 2000 (was #40,908)

    Who is named Vanderleest

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

    96% of people named Vanderleest identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander 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 Vanderleest

    Vanderleest has the Soundex code V536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V536.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Vanderleest come from?
    Borrowed from Dutch van der Leest, a habitational surname from a place called Leest.
    How common is the surname Vanderleest?
    538 people in the United States had the surname Vanderleest in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 573,876 Americans. It ranked 40,610th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Vanderleest?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Vanderleest identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Vanderleest?
    Vanderleest is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Vanderleest getting more or less common?
    More common. 503 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 538 in 2010, up 7.0%.