Surname statistics for Leahy

There are approximately 5,428 people named Leahy in the UK. That makes it the 1,930th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 86 are named Leahy.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)54281930N/A86
United Kingdom (1881 census)46672150.00216
Change since 1881+4962+5285+0.007+70
Other Countries
United States105153144N/A39
Australia1733938N/A106

Top male forenames

Michael Leahy
Stephen Leahy
John Leahy
Paul Leahy
Andrew Leahy
Patrick Leahy
David Leahy
James Leahy
William Leahy
Richard Leahy
Simon Leahy
Terence Leahy
Peter Leahy
Daniel Leahy
Christopher Leahy
Kevin Leahy
Mark Leahy
Shaun Leahy
Sean Leahy
Timothy Leahy

Top female forenames

Joanne Leahy
Lorraine Leahy
Patricia Leahy
Angela Leahy
Susan Leahy
Fiona Leahy
Julie Leahy
Emma Leahy
Lisa Leahy
Karen Leahy
Nicola Leahy
Shirley Leahy
Pauline Leahy
Terri Leahy
Sarah Leahy
Teresa Leahy
Ann Leahy
Alison Leahy
Victoria Leahy
Christine Leahy

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.