Leid
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic to the given name Leit[hold] (< ahd
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Leid is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GDGrenada1 in 11K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 355K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
937 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymic to the given name Leit[hold] (< ahd. liut ‘people’); bearer count 20.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Leid 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 937 | 1 in 355K | 1.2K | Leid | 21 |
| GD Grenada | 10 | 1 in 11K | 10 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 289 | Leid | 38 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Leid | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Leid | 4 |
| PA Panama | — | — | — | Leid | 3 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Leid | 11 |
937 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
Leid 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 German, from mnd. led 'harm, damage'; in compounds as an expressive surname element
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, a nickname for an unpleasant person, from Middle High German leit ‘disagreeable’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, sorrow, grief
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, distressing, uncomfortable
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, past participle of leie
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,415 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 937 | #26,126 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 727 | #30,352 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 10 | #213 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Leid come from?
- Patronymic to the given name Leit[hold] (< ahd. liut ‘people’); bearer count 20. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Leid?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫɪd/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Leid mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymic to the given name Leit[hold] (< ahd.
- What are other forms of the name Leid?
- In the etymology graph, Leider and Leidig are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Leid have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 937 people named Leid, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leid.
- Where is Leid most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leid is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Leid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 937 people named Leid in 2010, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/leidThe 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, “Leid”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.