Let
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Let is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 23K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 10Kas Lake
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 399as Lake
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Let itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
58,488 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Let 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 58,488 | 1 in 23K | 58K | Let | 41 |
| US United States | 32,104as Lake | 1 in 10K | 32K | Let | 79 |
| PL Poland | 13,776as Lech | 1 in 2.8K | 22K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 710as Lete | 1 in 70K | 710 | Let | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 660as Lech | 1 in 321K | 660 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 135as Lake | 1 in 399 | 135 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 93as Lake | 1 in 8.1K | 93 | — | — |
58,488 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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)
Let is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, contraction of le do (“with your sg”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, past participle of lei (“read”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tet, interval, gap, the space between two things (in time or place)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ang, first/third-person singular preterite indicative of lǣtan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, flight (the act of flying)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Petrus Letb. 1949ATAustrian author
- Dominique Yeung-Let-Cheongb. 1975FRbadminton 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 18 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 are other forms of the name Let?
- In the etymology graph, Lassen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Let?
- A machine transcription gives /lɛt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Let have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 58 thousand people named Let, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled let.
- Where is Let most common?
- Let is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Let?
- In India, the national register counted 58,488 people named Let, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Let?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/letThe 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, “Let”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.