Leiton
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Leiton is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 570(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 22K
- CLChile≈1 in 29K
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 570 (inferred from the name graph)
8,946 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leiton 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.
8,946 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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). 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)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 8.9K | #181 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 773 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 449 | #8,720 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 449 | #8,716 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 192 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Leiton have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 8.9 thousand people named Leiton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leiton.
- Where is Leiton most common?
- Leiton is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 570 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leiton?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 8,946 people named Leiton, about 1 in 570 residents.
- How common is Leiton compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Leiton is the 123rd most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Leiton?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leitonThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Leiton” — the 123rd most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.