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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Chinese: Flower bud
  2. Irish: The narrows; a place where cattle graze; a wood; a church
  3. Scottish: From a narrow strait; the name of a Scottish region
  4. Chinese: Thunder

First name variations: Kylie, Kyleigh, Leigh, Kyli, Kyle

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Chinese: said to be from a modified form of the name of Lei Zu, principal wife of the legendary emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 bc) and the first woman to be designated empress.
  2. Chinese: Cantonese variant of Li 1.
  3. Dutch: nickname for a lazy person, from Middle Dutch lei ‘lazy’.