Lieth
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of lie
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/liːt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lieth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 683K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 691K
- SESweden1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 683K (inferred from the name graph)
25 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular simple present indicative of lie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lieth 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 | 25 | 1 in 691K | 25 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 8 | 1 in 683K | 8 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Lieth | 8 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Lieth | 15 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Lieth | 9 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Lieth | 6 |
25 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsenb. 1867DEGerman general (1867–1942)
- Helmut Liethb. 1925DEGerman botanist (1925-2015)
- Johann Heinrich Liethb. 1955USPh.D. North Carolina State University 1982
- Nenet Liethb. 1995DEGerman association football player
- Carmen LiethDEGerman association football 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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 25 | #45,211 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #60,113 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #56,444 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Lieth mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of lie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lieth?
- A machine transcription gives /liːt/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Lieth have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 25 people named Lieth, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lieth most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lieth is densest in Norway — about 1 in 683 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lieth?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25 people named Lieth in 2007, about 1 in 691 thousand 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/liethThe 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, “Lieth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.