Leland

4,544 people in the United States were counted with the surname Leland in the 2020 census, making it the 7,102nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 65,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,544
Rank: 7,102nd
How common: 1 in 65,800
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Shortened from McLeland, McClellan, from Irish Mac Giolla Fhaoláin, "son of servant of (Saint) Faolán (=Little Wolf)".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 83.9%
Black, not Hispanic 8.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903)American folklorist
Henry M. Leland (1843–1932)American engineer, machinist, and entrepreneur
John Leland (1502–1552)English poet and antiquary
David Leland (1941–2023)British actor, screenwriter and director

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

Also a first name

Leland has been given to 58,556 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2007. See it as a given name.

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.