Leiva

Leiva is the 3,820th most common surname in the United States, shared by 9,055 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 33,000.

By the numbers

People: 9,055
Rank: 3,820th
How common: 1 in 33,000
Per 100,000: 3.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Leiva; this surname is predominantly found in Argentina.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 6.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Leiva

Lucas Leiva (born 1987)Brazilian association football player
Ponciano Leiva (1821–1896)President of Honduras
Yerko Leiva (born 1997)Chilean association football player

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

Surnames like Leiva

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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.