Ledgewood Surname

1,637,889th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 122 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Northern Ireland

Ledgewood Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Ledgewood Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1051:3,451,990194,849
Northern Ireland111:167,7318,683
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
England21:27,859,030389,889
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Scotland21:1,871,60827,884
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States521:965,74457,486

Ledgewood Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Ledgewood Come From? nationality or country of origin

Ledgewood occurs most in The United States. It can appear in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of Ledgewood click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Ledgewood? popularity and diffusion

It is the 1,637,889th most numerous last name on a global scale, borne by around 1 in 59,733,983 people. The last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 87 percent of Ledgewood live; 87 percent live in North America and 87 percent live in Anglo-North America.

The surname is most commonly held in The United States, where it is borne by 105 people, or 1 in 3,451,990. In The United States Ledgewood is mostly concentrated in: Alabama, where 14 percent live, Texas, where 14 percent live and California, where 13 percent live. Not including The United States this surname occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Northern Ireland, where 9 percent live and Australia, where 2 percent live.

Ledgewood Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Ledgewood has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname increased 202 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Ledgewood Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Ledgewood surname are 8.07% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 54.84% being registered with the political party.

Ledgewood earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 4.7% less than the national average, earning $41,123 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ledgewod940/
Ludgewood891/
Lidgewood890/
Ledget673/
Lesewad631/
Lejewad631/
Lezebot5029/
Ligevad501/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ledgewood
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