Leach

At the 2020 census, 42,194 Americans bore the surname Leach — 797th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,084.

By the numbers

People: 42,194
Rank: 797th
How common: 1 in 7,084
Per 100,000: 14.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Occupational surname for a physician, from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Leach described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.5%
Black, not Hispanic 13.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Leach

William Elford Leach (1790–1836)English zoologist and marine biologist (1790/1–1836)
Edmund Leach (1910–1989)British social anthropologist
Rick Leach (born 1964)American tennis player
Rosemary Leach (1935–2017)British actress
Bernard Leach (1887–1979)British potter
Jesse Leach (born 1978)American singer
Jim Leach (1942–2024)American politician
Bobby Leach (1858–1926)English circus performer and entrepreneur; Second person and first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel

People named Leach with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Leach

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.