Last Name LELAND

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Meaning	Local: At the lay land. Two parishes in county Lancashire bear the name of Layland or Leyland. 'Lay,' londe, not telyd. Thus Layland means fallow or unploughed land. Local: 'Laland,' an island in Denmark, the same as 'Leylande,' the ancient manner of spelling the name, and denotes Low lands. In Welsh, 'Lle' is a place, and 'Lan' a church. 'Lan' may signify any kind of inclosure, as 'Gwinlan,' 'Perlan,' an orchard, a word applied to gardens, houses, castles, or towns.

Origin	English, Dutch, Irish

Rank	6,671 (2000 US census)	7,671 (1990 US census)

Count	4,669 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

88.78%, or 4145 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
7.45%, or 348 total occurrences, as black,
0.69%, or 32 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.51%, or 24 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.11%, or 52 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.46%, or 68 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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