Leek

At the 2020 census, 2,911 Americans bore the surname Leek — 10,516th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,911
Rank: 10,516th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

Perhaps of pre-Anglo-Saxon (non-Old English) origin and instead from cel; compare Welsh llech and Irish leac, both from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā. Recorded as Lec in 1086 (DB).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.2%
Black, not Hispanic 9.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Leek

Try it on yourself

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.