Lees is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Lees
No. of characters: 4
Origin: England
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Lees

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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