The Leal surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 28,248 people carried this name — #1,133 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 9,550 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
588 people named Leal live in Switzerland.
They live in 18 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 501 people named Leal.
214 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 47 départements, most often Finistère.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Leal in American newspapers,
1874–1955.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 5,641,466 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Leal,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bárbara Leal 1790–1857 · actor -
Pinho Leal 1816–1884 · journalist -
Antônio Henriques Leal 1828–1885 · writer -
Federico Leal 1840–1904 · writer -
António Gomes Leal 1848–1921 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 218 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Leal.
- Lazzaroni 102 · U.S. census
- Lazzarotto 114 · U.S. census
- Lazzeri 245 · U.S. census
- Lazzerini 112 · U.S. census
- Le 77,453 · U.S. census
- Lea 9,597 · U.S. census
- Leandre 258 · U.S. census
- Leandri 110 · U.S. census
- Leandro 1,016 · U.S. census
- Leard 1,031 · U.S. census
- Leban 245 · U.S. census
- Lebar 535 · U.S. census
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