Lee
in the US
There are 510,385 people with the last name "Lee" in the United States.
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Meaning & History
2. 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.
3. Irish: reduced Americanized form of
5. Chinese 李: variant of
6. Chinese 黎: variant of
7. Chinese 利: variant of
8. Korean: variant of
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