The Leyes surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 178 people carried this name — #101,247 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is down 36% from 280 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 11,649 people named Leyes live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 57 people named Leyes.
Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Leyes in American newspapers,
1821–1851.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 63,613 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Leyes.
- Lewis 531,781 · U.S. census
- Lewkowicz 473 · U.S. census
- Lex 1,049 · U.S. census
- Lexa 334 · U.S. census
- Ley 5,037 · U.S. census
- Leyendecker 884 · U.S. census
- Leys 502 · U.S. census
- Leyser 139 · U.S. census
- Lezer 147 · U.S. census
- Lherisson 285 · U.S. census
- Lheureux 2,186 · U.S. census
- Lhomme 138 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Leyes is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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