Leete
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Leet. An early American bearer of this name was one of the founders of Guilford, CT
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫit/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 518K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 19M
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)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 518K (inferred from the name graph)
642 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Scotsleet(inferred from the name graph)via Leet
- Old Frenchlite(inferred from the name graph)via Leet
- Old Norseleiti“a share“a share, portion”(inferred from the name graph)via Leet
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Leet. An early American bearer of this name was one of the founders of Guilford, CT. William Leete (c. 1613-83), a colonial governor of New Haven colony and CT, was bom at Dodington, Huntingtonshire, England. He converted to Puritanism and sailed for America to escape persecution in May 1639.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leete 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 | 642 | 1 in 518K | 667 | Leete | 35 |
| CO Colombia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Leete | 3 |
| GT Guatemala | — | — | — | Leete | 1 |
| PA Panama | — | — | — | Leete | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Leete | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Leete | 4 |
642 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Leete is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, second-person singular voseo imperative of leer combined with te
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)
- William Leeteb. 1612GBEarly settler of the New Haven Colony; governor of New Haven and Connecticut colonies (1612-1683)
- Harriet L. Leeteb. 1871American Red Cross nurse (1871–1927)
- William R. Leeteb. 1886USAmerican missionary to China
- Kai Leeteb. 1910EEEstonian dancer and folk dance teacher (1910-1995)
- Art Leeteb. 1969EEEstonian ethnologist and folklorist (born 1969)
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 667 | #36,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 665 | #32,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 642 | #35,096 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Leete come from?
- variant of Leet. An early American bearer of this name was one of the founders of Guilford, CT. William Leete (c. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Leete?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫit/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Leete mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant of Leet. An early American bearer of this name was one of the founders of Guilford, CT.
- In which country does Leete have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 642 people named Leete, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leete.
- Where is Leete most common?
- Leete is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 518 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leete?
- In the United States, the national register counted 642 people named Leete in 2010, about 1 in 518 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leeteThe 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, “Leete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.