Leick
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Leick is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a Germanic personal name Lideco, itself an old diminutive of any of various compound names formed with Hut ‘tribe’, ‘people’.
- DKDenmark1 in 107K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 495K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
672 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Germanic personal name Lideco, itself an old diminutive of any of various compound names formed with Hut ‘tribe’, ‘people’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leick 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 | 672 | 1 in 495K | 672 | Leick | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 55 | 1 in 107K | 55 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | Leick | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
672 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Erich Leickb. 1882DEbotanist (1882-1956)
- Maurice Leickb. 1888LULuxembourgish politician (1888-1981)
- Kurt Leickb. 1942DEGerman politician (1942-2007)
- Gwendolyn Leickb. 1951ATAustrian anthropologist, Assyriologist and writer
- Joël Leickb. 1961FRFrench painter and photographer
- Kasper Leickb. 1968DKDanish film editor
- Hudson Leickb. 1969USAmerican actress
- Tom Leickb. 1970LULuxembourger actor
- Peggy Leickb. 1974LULuxembourgian female volleyball player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 672 | #33,856 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 655 | #36,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 649 | #33,206 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 55 | #9,654 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #91,616 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #58,845 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Leick mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name Lideco, itself an old diminutive of any of various compound names formed with Hut ‘tribe’, ‘people’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Leick have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 672 people named Leick, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leick.
- Where is Leick most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leick is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 107 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leick?
- In the United States, the national register counted 672 people named Leick in 2010, about 1 in 495 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leickThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Leick”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.