Lehane
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Irish Gaelic Ó Liatháin, ‘descendant of Liathán’, literally ‘little grey one’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lehane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 14Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 74K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
748 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Irish Gaelic Ó Liatháin, ‘descendant of Liathán’, literally ‘little grey one’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lehane counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 748 | 1 in 445K | 752 | Lehane | 220 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 99K | listed | Lehane | 109 |
| IE Ireland | #894 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Lehane | 77 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Lehane | 75 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 413K | — | Lehane | 32 |
| BE Belgium | — | 88 | 1 in 133K | 88 | Lehane | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Lehane | 6 |
748 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lehane is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1 . Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Liathain ‘descendant of Liathdn', a personal name from a diminutive of Hath ‘gray’. 2. Dutch: nickname for a conceited person or a dandy, from haan ‘cock’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mike Lehaneb. 1865USAmerican baseball player
- Con Lehaneb. 1877IEIrish politician and socialist
- Kevin Lehaneb. 1901Irish screenwriter
- Con Lehaneb. 1912IEIrish politician (1912-1983)
- Brendan Lehaneb. 1931GBBritish historian
- Maureen Lehaneb. 1932GBMezzo-soprano singer, university lecturer and founder of the Great Elm Music Festival
- Dennis Lehaneb. 1965USnovelist
- Chris Lehaneb. 1967USAmerican political consultant (born 1967)
- Conor Lehaneb. 1992IEIrish hurler
- Hugh Lehaneb. 2000IEIrish film actor and musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 752 | #32,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 748 | #31,033 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 681 | #31,986 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 88 | #17,207 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lehane mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish Gaelic Ó Liatháin, ‘descendant of Liathán’, literally ‘little grey one’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Lehane have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 748 people named Lehane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lehane.
- How common is the name Lehane?
- In the United States, the national register counted 748 people named Lehane in 2010, about 1 in 445 thousand residents.
- How common is Lehane compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Lehane is the 894th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lehaneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lehane” — the 894th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.