How common is the surname Leet?

1,906 people in the United States had the surname Leet in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,986 Americans. It ranked 15,386th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Leet?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Leet identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Leet getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,910 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,906 in 2010, down 0.2%.

The surname Leet

An English place surname, carried by 1,906 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Leet is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

English origin

Topographic surname for someone who lived near a road junction, from Old English ġelǣte (“intersection, crossroads”).

Leet is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,906 people named Leet in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 161,986 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,910.

#15,386

rank among US surnames

1,906

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-0.2%

change since 2000 (was #14,370)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,380	Tolleson	1,907	161,901
#15,386	Leet	1,906	161,986
#15,391	Milliman	1,905	162,071

Who is named Leet

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Leet identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Leete

Surnames that sound like Leet

Leet has the Soundex code L300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L300.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Leet come from?: Topographic surname for someone who lived near a road junction, from Old English ġelǣte (“intersection, crossroads”).
How common is the surname Leet?: 1,906 people in the United States had the surname Leet in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 161,986 Americans. It ranked 15,386th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Leet?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Leet identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Leet?: Leet is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Leet getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,910 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,906 in 2010, down 0.2%.
What are other spellings of Leet?: Leete.