Leader

At the 2020 census, 2,999 Americans bore the surname Leader — 10,225th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 99,700.

By the numbers

People: 2,999
Rank: 10,225th
How common: 1 in 99,700
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

English surname, both from the noun leader and an occupational use of lead (“heavy metal”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.4%
Black, not Hispanic 5.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Leader

George M. Leader (1918–2013)Governor of Pennsylvania

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

Surnames like Leader

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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.