Lê Surname
Approximately 758 people bear this surname
Lê Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 294 | 1:225,928 | 35,048 |
| Belgium | 140 | 1:82,119 | 12,906 |
| Switzerland | 59 | 1:139,202 | 13,535 |
| Brazil | 51 | 1:4,197,536 | 113,076 |
| United States | 44 | 1:8,237,703 | 362,142 |
| Sweden | 37 | 1:266,129 | 18,422 |
| Singapore | 30 | 1:183,590 | 7,666 |
| Canada | 25 | 1:1,473,824 | 101,190 |
| Germany | 14 | 1:5,750,390 | 205,224 |
| Australia | 12 | 1:2,249,642 | 97,973 |
| Finland | 11 | 1:499,700 | 30,478 |
| Denmark | 10 | 1:564,472 | 34,222 |
| Japan | 7 | 1:18,263,470 | 47,869 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Taiwan | 2 | 1:11,722,373 | 63,559 |
| Norway | 2 | 1:2,571,143 | 95,402 |
| China | 2 | 1:683,660,783 | 30,601 |
| Senegal | 1 | 1:14,579,342 | 11,705 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1:15,487,146 | 14,824 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
The alternate forms: Le (7,542,572), Lé (277), Lè (6), Lệ (2), Lë (1), Lễ (1) & Lė (1) are calculated separately.
Lê (112) may also be a first name.
Lê Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lê Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lê is borne by more people in France than any other country/territory. It can appear as a variant: Le, Lé, Lè, Lệ, Lë, Lễ or Lė. Click here for other potential spellings of Lê.
How Common Is The Last Name Lê? popularity and diffusion
The last name Lê is the 449,013th most prevalent family name world-wide, borne by around 1 in 9,614,177 people. Lê is mostly found in Europe, where 76 percent of Lê reside; 67 percent reside in Western Europe and 61 percent reside in Gallo-Europe. It is also the 885,979th most prevalent first name throughout the world, held by 112 people.
This last name is most frequently used in France, where it is carried by 294 people, or 1 in 225,928. In France Lê is mostly concentrated in: Île-de-France, where 66 percent reside, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where 12 percent reside and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, where 8 percent reside. Beside France it exists in 30 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 18 percent reside and Switzerland, where 8 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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