Leige Surname
Approximately 74 people bear this surname
Leige Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 69 | 1:5,253,028 | 264,570 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Leige (42) may also be a first name.
Leige Demographics
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Leige Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Leige Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Leige (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻟﻴﺞ) is found most in The United States. It may also be rendered as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Leige? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 2,203,767th most frequently held family name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 98,480,350 people. The surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 95 percent of Leige live; 93 percent live in North America and 93 percent live in Anglo-North America. Leige is also the 1,566,439th most frequent first name internationally, held by 42 people.
The last name is most common in The United States, where it is carried by 69 people, or 1 in 5,253,028. In The United States it is most common in: Georgia, where 17 percent are found, Alabama, where 14 percent are found and North Carolina, where 14 percent are found. Barring The United States this last name occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in China, where 3 percent are found and Nigeria, where 3 percent are found.
Leige Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Leige has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Leige surname increased 6,900 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Leige Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Leige surname are 7.88% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 61.11% being registered to vote for the party.
Leige earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 19.95% less than the national average, earning $34,539 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Leige Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Leige in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻟﻴﺞ | lyj | - |
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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 Leige
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