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Leith

Discussion of the name

The name Leith is otherwise unrecorded, but is probably either a short form of the Old Norse masculine name Leiðulfr, comprising the elements leiðr ‘loathed, disliked’ or leið ‘journey, path’ with *wulfar ‘wolf’, or else a byname directly from ON leiðr, although it is also possible that the DB form represents the ON name Liot (von Feilitzen 1937: 309; cf. Fellows Jensen 1968: 185).

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Leit

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Leiðr

  Phillimore edition: Leith

  Alecto edition: Leithr

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 4,32	Vill Foxcote	DB Spelling Leit	Holder 1066 Leith 'of Foxcote'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Thurstan de Guéron	Fiscal Value 6.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Leith 2 - Leith ‘of Foxcote’ (Bucks.), fl. 1066