as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name for someone who lived by a patch of fallow land, from Middle English lay, ley ‘fallow’ + land ‘land’. The surname is well established in the United States. It was borne by the humorous writer Charles Leland (1824–1903), author of The Breitmann Ballads, and it is also the name of a city in Mississippi.
| 1,040th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 26,333
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 41,184
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Leland per capita
- 1921
- marked the height of its popularity
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