Leigh-Hunt Surname

3,228,735th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 37 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
New Zealand
Highest density in:
New Zealand

Leigh-Hunt Surname

For the meaning of this name, see: Leigh & Hunt.

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Leigh-Hunt Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
New Zealand201:226,41621,878
England161:3,482,379114,324
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Leigh-Hunt Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Leigh-Hunt Come From? nationality or country of origin

Leigh-Hunt is carried by more people in New Zealand than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Leigh-Hunt.

How Common Is The Last Name Leigh-Hunt? popularity and diffusion

The last name Leigh-Hunt is the 3,228,735th most commonly used last name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 196,960,700 people. This last name is mostly found in Oceania, where 54 percent of Leigh-Hunt are found; 54 percent are found in Australasia and 54 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand.

Leigh-Hunt is most numerous in New Zealand, where it is carried by 20 people, or 1 in 226,416. In New Zealand it is most numerous in: Auckland Region, where 100 percent live. Outside of New Zealand this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also found in England, where 43 percent live and The United States, where 3 percent live.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Li-Hunt825/
Le-Hunt821/
Lee-Hunte741/
Le Hunt7123/
Lighnet711/
Le Hunte6736/
Leunt678/
Lighante672/
Lighunda671/
Lighento671/

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Leigh-Hunt
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