Lédet
surname · Latin script
Lédet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Americanized spelling of French Le De, a nickname for a gambler, meaning ‘the die’. The LA Ledets trace their ancestry perhaps to J.-F. Le Dee, who emigrated from Lille, France, c.1750.
- USUnited States1 in 70K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 113K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 9.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,725 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ledet in US United States, FR France, DZ Algeria and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Americanized spelling of French Le De, a nickname for a gambler, meaning ‘the die’. The LA Ledets trace their ancestry perhaps to J.-F. Le Dee, who emigrated from Lille, France, c.1750. Another branch is descended from an Antoine Le De of west-central France (1780).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lédet counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,725 | 1 in 70K | 4.7K | Ledet | 279 |
| DZ Algeria | #350 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Ledet | 1 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Ledet | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Ledet | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 62 | Ledet | 145 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ledet | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 162 | 1 in 36K | 162 | Ledet | 39 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Ledet | 4 |
4,725 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lédet mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of French Le De, a nickname for a gambler, meaning ‘the die’. The LA Ledets trace their ancestry perhaps to J.-F. Le Dee, who emigrated from Lille, France, c.1750. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lédet have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Lédet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ledet.
- How common is the name Lédet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,725 people named Lédet in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Lédet compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Lédet is the 350th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
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These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lédet” — the 350th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.