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The LEET surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,910 14370 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 662 7690 0.001 13
Change since 1880 +1248 -6680 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 149 9964 0.001 9
United Kingdom 123 21745 0 3
Top States for LEET by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 202 2529 0.005 50
Ohio 139 9343 0.001 12
California 123 18732 0.000 4
Florida 112 15158 0.001 7
New York 111 16508 0.001 6
Top States for LEET by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 79 2621 0.006 62
Kentucky 202 2529 0.005 50
North Dakota 20 5548 0.003 31
Minnesota 81 9243 0.002 16
Delaware 11 11283 0.001 14

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LEET live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LEET represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LEET in Kentucky than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LEET by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LEET

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LEET surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LEET surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LEET in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 37 1.94
White (Hispanic) 26 1.36
Asian/Pacific 19 0.99
Mixed Race 12 0.63
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.47
White (Caucasian) 1,807 94.61

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LEET surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LEET in historical publications

LEET. LEETE. A meeting of crossroads. Halliw. The origin of Icet as applied to an assembly or convention, as in court-leet, borough-leet, is disputed. See Eichardson's Diet. ; but the primaiy idea of a 'meeting' seems to be borne out by Mr. Halliwell's definition.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LEET

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LEET.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LEET

The following words are slight variants of LEET that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.