Updated March 21, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : Weary
  • Old English : Glade
  • Gaelic : Poet
  • English : Sheltered from the storm
  • Irish : Poetic
  • Chinese : Plum
  • Scottish : Dweller in the gray castle
  • Old English : Small meadow

Girl name variations

Leah

Leah

- 40% this year
Feminine
Rare
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Lea

Lea

- 5% this year
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Lia

Lia

+ 19% this year
Feminine
Common
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Liah

Liah

+ 14% this year
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Leatrice

Leatrice

0 % this year
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Leigh

Leigh

- 11% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Leanne

Leanne

+ 14% this year
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Leeanne

Leeanne

+ 56% this year
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Leigh Anne

Leigh Anne

0 % this year
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Li

Li

- 14% this year
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Ly

Ly

+ 60% this year
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Leslie

Leslie

- 5% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Lesley

Lesley

+ 28% this year
Neutral
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Lesly

Lesly

+ 23% this year
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Les

Les

+ 60% this year
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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Glade
  • Gaelic : Poet
  • Chinese : Plum
  • Old French : The king
  • English : English moor; meadow; Outdoors loving
  • Old English : Dweller by the deer meadow

Boy name variations

Leigh

Leigh

- 11% this year
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Leroy

Leroy

+ 11% this year
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Leroi

Leroi

0 % this year
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Roy

Roy

- 2% this year
Masculine
Uncommon
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Morley

Morley

+ 60% this year
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Morlee

Morlee

0 % this year
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Morly

Morly

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Morrs

Morrs

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Morleigh

Morleigh

0 % this year
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Morry

Morry

0 % this year
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Morrie

Morrie

0 % this year
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Raleigh

Raleigh

- 9% this year
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Rawley

Rawley

+ 64% this year
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Rawly

Rawly

0 % this year
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Rawls

Rawls

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How Popular Is The Name Lee

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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 : variant of Li 1.
  • Chinese : variant of Li 2.
  • Chinese : variant of Li 3.
  • Korean : variant of Yi.
  • 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.

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