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Origin Of The Surname Leith
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Meaning Of The Surname Leith
From the Town by the Wet River
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Interesting
Facts About
Leith
Leith is a locational surname, coming from Leith in Edinburgh which is named after the Leith that it is situated next to. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Gaelic ‘lite’ meaning wet, a fitting name for a river. |
Leith Statistics
Leith is the number 1141 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,116 share the surname Leith in the UK.
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