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Lee

in Vermont

There are 480 people with the last name "Lee" in Vermont.

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Ranking in Vermont

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Lee 95
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  1. is 91st most common Nichols
  2. is 92nd most common Bennett
  3. is 93rd most common Blanchard
  4. is 94th most common Hunt
  5. is 95th most common Lee
  6. is 96th most common Carter
  7. is 97th most common Jacobs
  8. is 98th most common Ross
  9. is 99th most common Benoit

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Lee

Michael, Richard, David, Robert, James, John, Donna, Elizabeth

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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