Leeds

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Liz in PY Paraguay, BR Brazil, CZ Czechia and 6 more, Las in ES Spain, MX Mexico, CU Cuba and 4 more, Lucie in FR France, CA Canada, BE Belgium and 1 more and ליז in DK Denmark, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Leeds is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian name54 records spelled Leeds6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia

  Also written Лидс, Lids

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Leeds is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, from Leeds, Kent/West Riding of Yorkshire; first attested Paulinus de Ledes 1175–6 MCh

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, I, with an excrescent dental. See also Leggatt. The placename is of Brit, origin, appearing in Bede in the form Loidis ‘People of the Lat’, an earlier name of the river Aire, meaning ‘the violent one’. Loidis was a district name, Legay see Gay Legeay see Jay only later restricted to the town. Legendre see Gendre Leefe see Leaf Leger see Ledger Leehan see Lehane

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

• In English, A large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, lonn. England

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Finnish, Leeds (a large city and metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

• Morris E. Leedsb. 1869USAmerican engineer (1869-1952)
• Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmarkb. 1878USnot in their usual nameAmerican-born heiress and member of the Greek royal family
• Herbert I. Leedsb. 1900USAmerican film director (1910-1954)
• Thelma Leedsb. 1910USAmerican actress (1910-2006)
• Phil Leedsb. 1916USAmerican actor (1916-1998)
• Peter Leedsb. 1917USAmerican actor (1917-1996)
• Alan Leedsb. 1947American music executive
• Eric Leedsb. 1952USAmerican musician
• Cary Leedsb. 1957USUS tennis player
• Andrew Leedsb. 1978USAmerican actor

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Leeds?

We estimate roughly 714 thousand people bear Leeds (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Leeds have the most bearers?

Leeds is most frequently recorded in Paraguay, where it is most often spelled liz.

How common is Leeds compared with other names?

In Paraguay, Leeds is the 14th most common given name of 19,021 given names recorded there.

What does the name Leeds mean?

Recorded meaning: Person from Leeds, Yorkshire; place-name meaning ‘place of the people who live by the river Lat’.