Lees

Lees is the 6,247th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,250 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 56,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,250
Rank: 6,247th
How common: 1 in 56,900
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Lees

Geoff Lees (born 1951)British racing driver
Paris Lees (born 1986)British journalist and activist for transgender rights
Tom Lees (born 1990)English association football player
Tamara Lees (1924–1999)British actress

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

Surnames like Lees

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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.