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The LETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,994 5351 0.002 22
United States (1880 census) 1,297 4376 0.003 26
Change since 1880 +4697 -975 -0.001 -4
Other Countries
Australia 137 10766 0.001 8
United Kingdom 520 8620 0.001 11
Top States for LETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 959 853 0.022 216
Florida 407 5287 0.003 25
Ohio 376 4016 0.003 33
Georgia 337 3001 0.004 41
California 330 8750 0.001 10
Top States for LETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 959 853 0.022 216
Mississippi 207 2028 0.007 73
West Virginia 110 2320 0.006 61
Tennessee 301 2853 0.005 53
Missouri 242 3366 0.004 43

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

Classification and Origin of LETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LETT 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 LETT 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 LETT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 115 1.92
White (Hispanic) 87 1.45
Native American/Alaskan 25 0.42
Asian/Pacific 24 0.4
White (Caucasian) 3,158 52.69
Black/African American 2,585 43.13

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

Meaning of LETT in historical publications

LETT. A Livonlan. One Let was a tenant in co. Gloucester before the Conquest. Domesday.

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 LETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LETT.

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 LETT

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