Leaf

At the 2020 census, 2,896 Americans bore the surname Leaf — 10,571st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,896
Rank: 10,571st
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From the Old English personal names Lēofa and Lēofe, both from lēof (“dear, beloved”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 82.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%

Notable people called Leaf

T. J. Leaf (born 1997)American-Israeli basketball player
Charles Leaf (1895–1947)British sailor
Henry Leaf (1862–1931)British racquets player

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

Surnames like Leaf

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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.