Ledet
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of French Le De, a nickname for a gambler, meaning ‘the die’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɫɛdɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ledet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- 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
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
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ledet 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ledet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Bokmål, simple past and past participle of lede
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of led
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Thierry Ledetb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Dorte Ledetb. 1969badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.7K | #7,086 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.7K | #6,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #6,957 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 162 | #3,245 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 95 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 92 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 81 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 52 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ledet 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.
- How do you pronounce Ledet?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɛdɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ledet mean?
- Recorded meaning: Americanized spelling of French Le De, a nickname for a gambler, meaning ‘the die’.
- In which country does Ledet have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Ledet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ledet.
- How common is the name Ledet?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,725 people named Ledet in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Ledet compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Ledet is the 350th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ledetThe 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, “Ledet” — the 350th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.