Leech

4,804 people in the United States were counted with the surname Leech in the 2020 census, making it the 6,747th most common in the country. That is about one person in 62,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,804
Rank: 6,747th
How common: 1 in 62,200
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

As an English surname, variant of Leach.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 87.8%
Black, not Hispanic 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Leech

Allen Leech (born 1981)Irish actor
Faith Leech (1941–2013)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
John Leech (1817–1864)British caricaturist and illustrator
John Henry Leech (1862–1900)English entomologist

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

Surnames like Leech

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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.