Home>Name Popularity>Last Names>L>Led-Lee>Lee>Minnesota

Lee

in Minnesota

There are 7,827 people with the last name "Lee" in Minnesota.

Add to web page

Ranking in Minnesota

NameRank
Lee 16
close
  1. is 12th most common Thompson
  2. is 13th most common Brown
  3. is 14th most common Williams
  4. is 15th most common Jones
  5. is 16th most common Lee
  6. is 17th most common Meyer
  7. is 18th most common Schmidt
  8. is 19th most common Davis
  9. is 20th most common Swanson

Similar Names and Nicknames

Le, Lea, Leo, Lew, Ley, Lei, Loe, Leu, Lie, Lue

Most Common First Names for Lee

Robert, David, Michael, James, John, Richard, Brian, Mark, Steven, Thomas

Meaning & History

Add to web page
Lee

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood’ or ‘glade’.

English: habitational name from any of the many places named with Old English lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’, as for example Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.

Irish: reduced Americanized form of Ó Laoidhigh ‘descendant of Laoidheach’, a personal name derived from laoidh ‘poem’, ‘song’ (originally a byname for a poet).

Americanized spelling of Norwegian Li or Lie.

Chinese 李: variant of Li 1.

Chinese 黎: variant of Li 2.

Chinese 利: variant of Li 3.

Korean: variant of Yi.

FOREBEARS Lee is a prominent VA family name brought over in 1641 by Richard Lee (d. 1664), a VA planter and legislator. His great-grandsons included the brothers Arthur, Francis L., Richard Henry, and William Lee, all prominent American Revolution legislators and diplomats. The Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee was the son of Henry ‘Lighthorse Harry’ Lee (1756–1818), another revolutionary war hero.

Recent Searches for "Lee" in Minnesota

Since June 2009
3,309

Most Popular Search

Robert Lee, MN (97 searches)
Source: Current searches and listings for US adults on WhitePages. (nv1)

© 2009 WhitePages Inc. - Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Microsoft MapPoint Terms of Use and Privacy Statement