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Lee

in Nevada

There are 3,768 people with the last name "Lee" in Nevada.

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Ranking in Nevada

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Lee 16
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  1. is 12th most common Davis
  2. is 13th most common Anderson
  3. is 14th most common Gonzalez
  4. is 15th most common Wilson
  5. is 16th most common Lee
  6. is 17th most common Taylor
  7. is 18th most common Perez
  8. is 19th most common Martin
  9. is 20th most common Thomas

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Lee

David, Robert, John, Michael, James, William

Meaning & History

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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.

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