Ley

Ley is the 6,747th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,804 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 62,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,804
Rank: 6,747th
How common: 1 in 62,200
Per 100,000: 1.6

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 74.5%
Hispanic or Latino 14.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ley

Robert Ley (1890–1945)German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes
Willy Ley (1906–1969)German-American science and science-fiction writer
Sussan Ley (born 1961)Australian politician

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

Surnames like Ley

Leyva
Leyba

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.