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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 84,795 Historical Documents with Leiter on Ancestry
- 27,149 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,077 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,848 Military Records
- 2,485 Immigration Records
- 37,236 Member Trees
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Number of Leiter families
 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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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Leiter census records
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