Leytón
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Leytón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the name of the River Lea + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Luton.
- USUnited States1 in 486K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 14K
- ARArgentina1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,476 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leyton in US United States, ES Spain, SE Sweden.
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)From the name of the River Lea + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Luton.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Leytón 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,476 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 734 | 1 in 68K | 734 | Leyton | 37 |
| US United States | 685 | 1 in 486K | 2.1K | Leyton | 213 |
| UY Uruguay | 239 | 1 in 14K | 239 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 161 | 1 in 32K | 161 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 74 | 1 in 138K | 74 | Leyton | 13 |
1,476 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leytón mean, and where does it come from?
- From the name of the River Lea + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). Doublet of Luton. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Leytón have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Leytón, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Leytón most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leytón is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leytón?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,476 people named Leytón, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leyt%C3%B3nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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, “Leytón”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.