Leake

Leake is the 5,278th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,374 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 46,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,374
Rank: 5,278th
How common: 1 in 46,900
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

As an English but ultimately gmq surname, from Old Norse lœkr (“stream, brook”). The Norse word is found in many English place names, such as Leck in Lancashire, and the surname could have been from these names. Compare the variant Leach.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.8%
Black, not Hispanic 23.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Leake

William Martin Leake (1777–1860)British military man, diplomat and antiquary

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

Surnames like Leake

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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.