Surname statistics for Leith

There are approximately 2,832 people named Leith in the UK. That makes it the 3,421th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 45 are named Leith.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)28323421N/A45
United Kingdom (1881 census)155127370.00552
Change since 1881+1281-684-0.001-7
Other Countries
United States216612976N/A8
Australia3164960N/A19

Top male forenames

John Leith
David Leith
Ian Leith
Andrew Leith
Alexander Leith
James Leith
William Leith
Graeme Leith
Malcolm Leith
Thomas Leith
Brian Leith
Colin Leith
Guy Leith
Philip Leith
Robert Leith
Stuart Leith
Christopher Leith
Scott Leith
Simon Leith
Martin Leith

Top female forenames

Sheila Leith
Emma Leith
Alison Leith
Linda Leith
Lucille Leith
Pamela Leith
Patricia Leith
Penelope Leith
Prudence Leith
Susan Leith
Katie Leith
Joanna Leith
Amanda Leith
Anne Leith
Barbara Leith
Catharine Leith
Catherine Leith
Evelyn Leith
Fiona Leith
Jacqueline Leith

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.