Leroy

At the 2020 census, 7,374 Americans bore the surname Leroy — 4,664th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 40,500.

By the numbers

People: 7,374
Rank: 4,664th
How common: 1 in 40,500
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Transferred from the common French surname Leroy, meaning "the king".

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 75.0%
Black, not Hispanic 13.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%

Notable people called Leroy

Nolwenn Leroy (born 1982)French musician
Mervyn LeRoy (1900–1987)American film director and producer
Philippe Leroy (1930–2024)French actor
Gilles Leroy (born 1958)French writer
Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud (1798–1854)Marshal of France
Catherine Leroy (1944–2006)French photojournalist
Robert LeRoy (1885–1946)US tennis player
Jérôme Leroy (born 1974)French footballer

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

Surnames like Leroy

Also a first name

Leroy has been given to 202,163 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. 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.