Lees is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 4 characters long in length.
How popular is Lees?
Lees is common in England.
Lees is ranked 14828 on our list.
Despite the fact that the number of Lees bearers increased by 0.01817851 per cent in 2010 US census to 5502 since 2000, the surname slipped by 451 spots and ranked at 6214. The last name was found in around 19 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.
Race | 2010 | 2000 |
White | 94.77 | 94.36 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2.24 | 1.49 |
Others | 0.85 | 1.07 |
Lees is quite popular family name mostly used in England while Jersey is ahead in terms of density. Around 35516 people have been found who wears Lees as their family name. Lees is used widely across the globe.
More detailed information can be found below: RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
78,633
Czech Republic9
318,252
Ukraine6
2,113
Taiwan3
24,547
Saudi Arabia3
189
Samoa3
35,789
Turkey3
5,909
Bangladesh3
10,686
Costa Rica3
15,749
Finland3
3,670
Mozambique2
2,168
Suriname2
31,767
Greece2
993
Guernsey2
18,625
Japan2
20,186
Kenya2
28,232
Morocco2
54,135
Philippines2
4,104
South Korea2
14,521
Portugal2
9,926
Ivory Coast1
7,191
Afghanistan1
123,175
Tanzania1
624
Solomon Islands1
2,613
The Bahamas1
1,254
Gibraltar1
9,498
Iceland1
12,745
Luxembourg1
7,110
Bosnia1
573
Vanuatu1
4,249
Cambodia1
165,773
Belarus1
2,037
Cayman Islands1
11,510
Oman1
24,421
Slovakia1
2,309
Monaco1
746
Dominica1
31,584
Peru1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
9,255
Uruguay49
2,210
Thailand48
15,525
Norway46
21,712
Sweden44
46,461
Netherlands40
396
Isle of Man34
17,489
Denmark30
8,720
Qatar29
282,307
Russia27
4,169
Cyprus26
80,267
Kazakhstan24
2,558
China17
4,313
Guyana17
559,154
India12
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
19,475
Zimbabwe84
57,588
Argentina75
14,658
Israel71
110,851
Indonesia70
17,456
Switzerland63
85,668
Italy56
217
Jersey56
Countries with hundreds of Lees:
767
New Zealand895
15,535
France612
17,127
Germany605
757
Wales497
928
Northern Ireland346
867
Estonia214
56,243
Brazil175
1,470
Hong Kong166
2,520
Botswana157
20,427
Spain145
23,602
Mexico131
3,096
Ireland131
13,194
Malaysia126
2,817
Singapore124
15,958
Belgium111
9,004
United Arab Emirates107
Countries with thousands of Lees:
5,686
United States6,913
657
Australia4,620
2,229
Canada2,258
3,344
South Africa1,936
493
Scotland1,752
Countries with ten thousands of Lees:
537
England12,503
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Immigrants to US
From Ireland
James Lees was 26 years old when he migrated to USA during Irish famine on March 13, 1846. He lived in Ireland where he worked as miner and took Liverpool from Liverpool. Hugh-M. Lees (24) Workman, 23 years old Mary Lees, John Lees, aged Of unknown age, Ann Lees (28), Immigrant Mary Lees, Workman Patrick Lees, Judith Lees (30) Workwoman, Dave Lees, aged 50, and 42 other Lees around 62.5% of whom were workman while others worked as servant migrated to US.
Lees Namesakes
- Andrew Lees, Actor
- Adelaide Hanscom Leeson, Artist
- Adelaide Hanscom Leeson, Artist
- James Lees-Milne, Writer
- John Lees, Inventor
- Arnold Leese, British Politician
- Hastings Lees-Smith, British Politician
- Janet Lees Price, Television actress
- Oliver Leese, Commanding officer
- Benjamin Lees, Composer
- Brandon Lees played important role of Donny in 0 horror film Prisoner Awakening.
- In 2007 war movie, In Our Name, Peter James Lees portrayed Hostage.
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