Lee Forename
637th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,262,364 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Brunei
Lee Forename Definition:
A Teutonic name, meaning: A shelter.
Lee Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 73% | 460,839 | 1:787 | 158 |
| China | - | 227,876 | 1:5,995 | 882 |
| England | 97% | 186,426 | 1:298 | 59 |
| Malaysia | 86% | 83,646 | 1:364 | 22 |
| Singapore | 57% | 69,482 | 1:90 | 2 |
| Laos | - | 47,292 | 1:139 | 22 |
| Canada | 77% | 24,305 | 1:1,363 | 310 |
| Australia | - | 22,538 | 1:606 | 138 |
| South Africa | 68% | 19,101 | 1:2,855 | 513 |
| Vietnam | 52% | 12,847 | 1:7,210 | 375 |
| Thailand | 61% | 12,655 | 1:5,537 | 963 |
| Wales | 98% | 10,419 | 1:297 | 62 |
| Philippines | 66% | 9,619 | 1:11,021 | 1,451 |
| Scotland | 85% | 7,366 | 1:726 | 155 |
| Brunei | 71% | 6,192 | 1:68 | 10 |
| Israel | 86% | 5,074 | 1:1,656 | 365 |
| New Zealand | - | 4,988 | 1:909 | 213 |
| Kenya | 100% | 4,085 | 1:11,336 | 1,381 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 3,147 | 1:9,791 | 1,409 |
| Macau | - | 3,120 | 1:195 | 43 |
| Egypt | 85% | 2,646 | 1:34,732 | 2,251 |
| Hong Kong | - | 2,470 | 1:3,139 | 228 |
| Brazil | 100% | 2,052 | 1:104,404 | 5,705 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,586 | 1:23,838 | 2,295 |
| Angola | 100% | 1,485 | 1:18,159 | 1,621 |
| Indonesia | 82% | 1,473 | 1:175,128 | 17,460 |
| Liberia | 97% | 1,387 | 1:3,181 | 432 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1,375 | 1:115,972 | 7,431 |
| South Korea | - | 1,162 | 1:4,771 | 818 |
| Zambia | - | 1,162 | 1:13,644 | 1,334 |
| Ireland | 92% | 1,141 | 1:4,070 | 448 |
| Netherlands | 73% | 1,045 | 1:16,174 | 1,684 |
| Northern Ireland | 81% | 1,033 | 1:1,784 | 311 |
| Zimbabwe | 76% | 953 | 1:16,184 | 1,886 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 925 | 1:105,470 | 7,385 |
| Ghana | - | 899 | 1:30,018 | 1,918 |
| Papua New Guinea | 75% | 773 | 1:10,546 | 1,058 |
| Peru | 90% | 646 | 1:49,213 | 2,511 |
| Germany | 70% | 576 | 1:167,844 | 2,835 |
| Poland | 70% | 565 | 1:67,305 | 1,669 |
| Nigeria | 81% | 558 | 1:318,216 | 11,643 |
| India | 52% | 549 | 1:2,212,892 | 111,745 |
| Qatar | 66% | 537 | 1:4,413 | 700 |
| Sweden | 52% | 513 | 1:19,216 | 1,366 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 501 | 1:41,515 | 4,680 |
| Jamaica | - | 444 | 1:6,494 | 909 |
| Cambodia | 60% | 441 | 1:36,901 | 2,569 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 420 | 1:24,836 | 2,150 |
| Togo | - | 412 | 1:17,571 | 2,429 |
| Venezuela | 63% | 407 | 1:74,206 | 3,759 |
| Japan | - | 376 | 1:340,388 | 9,154 |
| Malawi | 100% | 360 | 1:47,534 | 3,231 |
| France | 65% | 351 | 1:189,374 | 3,154 |
| Russia | 58% | 336 | 1:429,267 | 4,963 |
| Mexico | 82% | 329 | 1:377,339 | 4,885 |
| Morocco | - | 328 | 1:104,721 | 3,418 |
| Gabon | 100% | 321 | 1:5,867 | 1,120 |
| Samoa | - | 320 | 1:610 | 177 |
| Taiwan | 79% | 299 | 1:79,497 | 10,259 |
| Vanuatu | - | 292 | 1:897 | 247 |
| Pakistan | 82% | 283 | 1:686,776 | 14,032 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 68% | 268 | 1:5,080 | 874 |
| Bahrain | - | 266 | 1:5,070 | 791 |
| Spain | 100% | 251 | 1:185,378 | 3,923 |
| Belgium | 60% | 234 | 1:49,103 | 2,427 |
| Portugal | - | 231 | 1:45,069 | 1,625 |
| Jersey | 100% | 227 | 1:440 | 98 |
| Namibia | - | 221 | 1:10,879 | 1,285 |
| Bahamas | - | 214 | 1:1,866 | 432 |
| Uzbekistan | 60% | 213 | 1:144,537 | 3,727 |
| Malta | - | 210 | 1:2,045 | 387 |
| Haiti | 52% | 192 | 1:55,870 | 3,632 |
| Switzerland | 66% | 189 | 1:43,458 | 2,044 |
| Swaziland | - | 179 | 1:7,264 | 1,100 |
| Botswana | - | 174 | 1:12,554 | 1,692 |
| Iraq | 100% | 169 | 1:207,206 | 3,549 |
| Denmark | - | 164 | 1:34,448 | 1,546 |
| Estonia | 82% | 151 | 1:8,711 | 1,050 |
| Norway | 89% | 148 | 1:34,678 | 1,659 |
| DR Congo | 88% | 137 | 1:538,888 | 18,632 |
| Honduras | 87% | 130 | 1:67,827 | 2,652 |
| Kuwait | - | 123 | 1:30,775 | 2,974 |
| Congo | 65% | 121 | 1:41,398 | 3,332 |
| Cameroon | 81% | 119 | 1:181,601 | 7,932 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| Guernsey | - | 104 | 1:609 | 147 |
| Gibraltar | - | 95 | 1:359 | 72 |
| Nicaragua | 76% | 94 | 1:64,025 | 2,754 |
| Lebanon | 83% | 91 | 1:61,841 | 2,584 |
| Afghanistan | 79% | 87 | 1:374,983 | 7,174 |
| Guam | - | 87 | 1:1,847 | 398 |
| Panama | 58% | 83 | 1:47,067 | 3,228 |
| Uganda | 93% | 83 | 1:493,457 | 11,506 |
| Guatemala | - | 82 | 1:196,444 | 3,026 |
| Costa Rica | 80% | 80 | 1:59,599 | 2,428 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 79 | 1:90,532 | 7,429 |
| Colombia | 93% | 78 | 1:612,550 | 8,686 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 78 | 1:701 | 120 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 77 | 1:1,425 | 293 |
| Saint Lucia | 98% | 75 | 1:2,371 | 440 |
| Belize | 93% | 74 | 1:4,788 | 981 |
| Greece | 75% | 74 | 1:147,764 | 3,414 |
| Barbados | - | 73 | 1:3,970 | 670 |
| Solomon Islands | 61% | 71 | 1:8,182 | 858 |
| Italy | 67% | 70 | 1:872,316 | 7,880 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 70 | 1:754,119 | 17,658 |
| Kazakhstan | 56% | 68 | 1:260,983 | 5,170 |
| Marshall Islands | 98% | 65 | 1:788 | 79 |
| Austria | 60% | 62 | 1:137,326 | 2,486 |
| Bermuda | - | 62 | 1:1,046 | 227 |
| Guyana | 62% | 61 | 1:12,512 | 1,796 |
| Finland | 62% | 58 | 1:94,538 | 2,326 |
| Mauritius | - | 56 | 1:23,175 | 2,050 |
| Chile | 59% | 53 | 1:332,211 | 4,835 |
| Ecuador | - | 52 | 1:340,902 | 4,453 |
| Mozambique | - | 49 | 1:555,987 | 1,346 |
| Cayman Islands | 73% | 46 | 1:1,333 | 299 |
| Micronesia | - | 37 | 1:2,878 | 384 |
| Libya | - | 36 | 1:172,814 | 833 |
| Myanmar | - | 36 | 1:1,443,008 | 744 |
| Yemen | - | 36 | 1:730,465 | 2,750 |
| French Polynesia | - | 32 | 1:8,684 | 1,174 |
| Ivory Coast | 50% | 30 | 1:769,198 | 24,781 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 30 | 1:118,343 | 2,043 |
| Aruba | - | 29 | 1:3,579 | 715 |
| El Salvador | - | 29 | 1:218,682 | 2,993 |
| Algeria | - | 28 | 1:1,363,454 | 6,169 |
| Czechia | 61% | 28 | 1:380,577 | 2,209 |
| Belarus | 68% | 27 | 1:351,199 | 2,532 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 75% | 27 | 1:4,133 | 749 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 26 | 1:3,823 | 748 |
| Madagascar | - | 25 | 1:945,176 | 2,170 |
| Grenada | 80% | 22 | 1:4,915 | 816 |
| Lithuania | - | 22 | 1:134,176 | 1,681 |
| Oman | - | 21 | 1:195,651 | 3,243 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 19 | 1:29,687 | 1,523 |
| Mongolia | - | 18 | 1:163,045 | 8,219 |
| Isle of Man | 75% | 17 | 1:5,001 | 173 |
| Paraguay | 71% | 12 | 1:603,067 | 5,347 |
| American Samoa | - | 11 | 1:5,077 | 963 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 11 | 1:3,155 | 669 |
| Benin | - | 10 | 1:1,057,584 | 26,153 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 10 | 1:314 | 48 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 9 | 1:126,410 | 509 |
| Iceland | - | 9 | 1:40,669 | 2,415 |
| Tonga | - | 9 | 1:11,937 | 236 |
| Tunisia | - | 9 | 1:75,211 | 3,284 |
| Croatia | 100% | 8 | 1:527,134 | 5,786 |
| Hungary | 67% | 8 | 1:1,223,971 | 3,159 |
| Cook Islands | - | 7 | 1:2,593 | 418 |
| Argentina | 50% | 6 | 1:7,128,874 | 15,663 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 6 | 1:1,607,157 | 18,833 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 6 | 1:5,208 | 987 |
| Monaco | - | 6 | 1:6,411 | 917 |
| Senegal | 50% | 5 | 1:2,916,271 | 15,947 |
| Anguilla | - | 4 | 1:3,314 | 681 |
| Burundi | - | 4 | 1:2,476,640 | 1,357 |
| Dominica | - | 4 | 1:18,868 | 592 |
| Georgia | 100% | 4 | 1:934,616 | 13,351 |
| Iran | - | 4 | 1:19,624,217 | 40,893 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 4 | 1:1,493,319 | 26,894 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 4 | 1:509,999 | 25,489 |
| Maldives | - | 4 | 1:108,476 | 2,638 |
| Nepal | - | 4 | 1:7,121,838 | 62,014 |
| Rwanda | - | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,327,516 | 4,597 |
| Somalia | - | 4 | 1:3,381,467 | 5,208 |
| Turkey | - | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Uruguay | - | 4 | 1:856,909 | 8,493 |
| Armenia | - | 3 | 1:972,918 | 8,284 |
| Cuba | - | 3 | 1:3,835,517 | 8,849 |
| Latvia | 100% | 3 | 1:671,882 | 3,893 |
| Niger | - | 3 | 1:6,394,665 | 47,369 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 3 | 1:18,287 | 2,142 |
| Ukraine | - | 3 | 1:15,166,636 | 17,541 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 1:1,762,229 | 6,852 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 2 | 1:9,189,734 | 69,235 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Jordan | 75% | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Serbia | - | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Syria | - | 2 | 1:9,653,038 | 7,712 |
| Albania | 100% | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Bhutan | 100% | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Guinea | - | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| New Caledonia | - | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 1 | 1:2,324 | 291 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Palestine | 100% | 1 | 1:4,550,058 | 5,739 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| South Sudan | 100% | 1 | 1:11,551,019 | 3,224 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,374,922 | 7,831 |
| Transnistria | - | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
The alternate forms: Lée (5), Leë (4), Lêe (3), Lëe (1) & Lèe (1) are calculated separately.
Lee (2,280,266) may also be a surname.
Lee Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Teutonic name, meaning: A shelter.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
A Chinese name, meaning: Plum.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Lee Forename Popularity
Lee Demographics
Lee Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 27 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Lee Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lee in the Russian language | ||
| Лее | lee | - |
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