Leïs
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Leïs is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,855 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: nickname for a soft-spoken, quiet person, from Middle High German Use ‘quiet’.
- UYUruguay1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 36K
- ARArgentina1 in 53K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,855 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leis in US United States, ES Spain.
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)nickname for a soft-spoken, quiet person, from Middle High German Use ‘quiet’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Leïs is found
(measured from records)Leïs 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.
2,855 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Leïs mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a soft-spoken, quiet person, from Middle High German Use ‘quiet’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Leïs a male or female name?
- Leïs is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Leïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Leïs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leis. After it come Spain, Argentina, Uruguay and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Leïs most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leïs is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 7.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leïs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,855 people named Leïs in 2010, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Leïs?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/le%C3%AFsThe 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, “Leïs” — ranked 10650th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.