Leter
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/leteɾ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Leter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 219 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007.
- NLNetherlands1 in 79K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- FRFrance≈1 in 800K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
219 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Leter
- Swahili:/leteɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Dutch:/lɛtər/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Leter is found
(measured from records)Leter 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 219 | 1 in 79K | 219 | Leter | 16 |
| FR France | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 797K | 31 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 13M | listed | Leter | 32 |
| IT Italy | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Leter | 1 |
| BE Belgium | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Leter | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
219 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)Leter is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lētō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, letter, a symbol in an alphabet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of let
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, present of lete
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, litière
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Michel Leterb. 1959FRFrench essayist
- Evita Leterb. 1995SRSurinamese swimmer
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Leter?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /leteɾ/; in Dutch /lɛtər/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Leter?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 219 people named Leter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leter. After it come France, United States, Italy and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Leter most common?
- Leter is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Leter?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 219 people named Leter in 2007, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leter?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leterThe 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, “Leter” — ranked 9492nd in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.