Lehto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from lehto ‘grove’; either a habitational name, recorded since the 17th century, from any of the farms in eastern Finland named for their location by a grove, or in other cases a more recent ornamenta
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/əɫtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lehto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 273(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 15K
- NONorway1 in 119K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lehto itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 273 (inferred from the name graph)
20,426 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Лехто in FI Finland, RU Russia.
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 lehto ‘grove’; either a habitational name, recorded since the 17th century, from any of the farms in eastern Finland named for their location by a grove, or in other cases a more recent ornamental adoption. In the U.S. this may also be a shortened form of Lehtonen, which is a more frequent form in Finland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lehto 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.
20,426 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling lehto. 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)
Lehto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, broad deciduous woodland; herb-rich forest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, grove (young deciduous forest)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, leaf
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)
- Reino Ragnar Lehtob. 1898FIFinnish politician (1898–1966)
- Olli Lehtob. 1925FIFinnish mathematician (1925–2020)
- Pekka Lehtob. 1948FIFinnish screenwriter, film director and film producer
- Leevi Lehtob. 1951FIFinnish poet, translator, programmer and publisher (1951-2019)
- Petteri Lehtob. 1961FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Jimi Tenorb. 1965FInot in their usual nameFinnish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer
- Katja Lehtob. 1972FIice hockey player
- Isa-Eerika Lehtob. 1973FITV presenter
- Antero Lehtob. 1984FIFinnish basketball player (born 1984)
- Elian Lehtob. 2000FIFinnish alpine skier
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20K | #47 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 8.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,685 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #18,916 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 675 | #1,443 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 46 | #27,560 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,424 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Lehto mean, and where does it come from?
- from lehto ‘grove’; either a habitational name, recorded since the 17th century, from any of the farms in eastern Finland named for their location by a grove, or in other cases a more recent ornamenta… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lehto?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫtoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lehto have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Lehto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled лехто.
- Where is Lehto most common?
- Lehto is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 273 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lehto?
- In Finland, the national register counted 20,426 people named Lehto, about 1 in 273 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lehtoThe 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, “Lehto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.