Ĺŷ
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ĺŷ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Libya it is the 64th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Vietnamese Lý. Doublet of Lee.
- LYLibya≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
29,891 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ly in US United States, LY Libya, DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Vietnamese Lý. Doublet of Lee.
Sources 4
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ĺŷ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 29,891 | 1 in 11K | 34K | Ly | 69 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 666 | 1 in 13K | 666 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 653 | 1 in 16K | 653 | — | 5 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Ly | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 489 | 1 in 102K | 489 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 352 | 1 in 16K | 352 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 303 | 1 in 19K | 303 | — | — |
| LY Libya | #64 | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Ly | 15 |
29,891 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ĺŷ mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Vietnamese Lý. Doublet of Lee. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Ĺŷ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Ĺŷ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ly.
- Where is Ĺŷ most common?
- Ĺŷ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ĺŷ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,891 people named Ĺŷ in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Ĺŷ compared with other names?
- In Libya, Ĺŷ is the 64th most common surname of 22,670 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ĺŷ?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%BA%C5%B7The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ĺŷ” — the 64th most common surname in Libya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.