Last Name LEECH

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The leech, a physician. Also local, 'at the lache,' i.e. the lake. In county Lancaster Leach has absorbed Lache. A variant of Leach. A physician.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Zimbabwean

Rank	6,340 (2000 US census)	5,053 (1990 US census)

Count	4,945 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

93.27%, or 4612 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
3.52%, or 174 total occurrences, as black,
0.63%, or 31 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.47%, or 23 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.93%, or 46 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.19%, or 59 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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