Last Name LETT

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Meaning The son of Lettice (Latin 'laetitia,' gladness). As a girl's name Lettice was very popular in its day. It is now rare. It suffered at the Reformation, and still more so in the Puritan era, not being a Bible name, and implying hilarity. Lett was the nickname, Letts and Lettson being the patronymics. Lettsom is occasionally a corrupted form of Lettson (like Ransom for Ranson), but in general it is local.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, Hungarian

Rank 5,351 (2000 US census) 5,775 (1990 US census)
Count 5,994 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 52.69%, or 3158 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 43.13%, or 2585 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.4%, or 24 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.42%, or 25 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.92%, or 115 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.45%, or 87 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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