Leite
At the 2020 census, 2,993 Americans bore the surname Leite — 10,244th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 99,900.
By the numbers
- People
- 2,993
- Rank
- 10,244th
- How common
- 1 in 99,900
- Per 100,000
- 1.0
Where the name comes from
As a German surname, from the female personal name Aleite, shortened from the name Adelheid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Leite described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Leite
- Matheus Leite Nascimento (born 1983)Brazilian footballer
- Carvalho Leite (1912–2004)Brazilian footballer and manager
- Diogo Leite (born 1999)Portuguese association football player
- José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858–1941)Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and author
- Eduardo Leite (born 1985)Brazilian politician
- Duarte Leite (1864–1950)Portuguese politician and academic
- Domingos Leite Pereira (1882–1956)Portuguese politician
- Helton Leite (born 1990)Brazilian association football player
People named Leite with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Leite
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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.