Leiter Family History
Leiter Name Meaning
German: from Leiter ‘leader’, status name for a foreman
or for the leader of a military expedition, from Middle High German
leiten ‘lead’.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic):
variant of Leitner.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Leiter
Name Distribution of Leiter Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leiter families
 38 - 73  13 - 37 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Leiter families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leiter families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leiter census records
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Leiter Family Origin
Leiter Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Leiter
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Leiter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Leiter census records
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Leiter Civil War Service Records
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