Given name & surname
Leather
“as tough as hide”
Leather is used as a given name and a surname. One American interpretation is “as tough as hide.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One American interpretation is “as tough as hide.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is American.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1900. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Leather through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 195
- 0 boys · 195 girls
- Most popular year
- 1913
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1913. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 409 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Leather’s family of names
Leather has a related form in Lether.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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