What We Know About the Leyendecker Surname

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How common is Leyendecker?

Leyendecker is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name. The 2010 US Census counted 884 people named Leyendecker, ranking it number 27,331 among American surnames. From 1891 to 2000, 395 births in France were registered under Leyendecker. The name became more frequent over the century.

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Leyendecker, the family's own records come first. Start with the most recent records and work back one generation at a time. The Leyendecker family name is well attested in modern population records.

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