Last Name LETTS

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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, Irish

Rank 13,333 (2000 US census) 19,088 (1990 US census)
Count 2,097 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 89.75%, or 1882 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 6.34%, or 133 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.57%, or 12 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.62%, or 13 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.34%, or 28 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.38%, or 29 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Longest baby names

 The longest first name, consisting of 12 characters, from the baby names reported since the year 1880 in the United States is Francisquita.

There are three names consisting of 11 characters: Christopher, Margueritta, and Margueritte

Russian middle names

 As with many things that are 'Russian,' neither child nor his parents has much choice in picking the name. It is purely patronymic and generally predefined at the time when the child is born or even rather conceived. The name is derived from the child's father's first...

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