# Leite

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #99,496

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
* As a German surname, from the female personal name Aleite, shortened from the name Adelheid.
* As a Norwegian surname, from the name of several farmsteads in Norway, from Old Norse leiti (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hliþą, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean, slope”).
* As a Portuguese surname, from the noun leite (“milk”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/leite