Լի
surname · Armenian script
Լի is a surname written in the Armenian script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 2nd most common given name. Լի is also written Lee in Latin, Лейла in Cyrillic and לילי in Hebrew.
- CNChina≈1 in 97as Li(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 120as Leyla
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 170as Lee
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Լի itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #63 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 670 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000,000 named Li, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est., as Li
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Լի in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and 6 more
(measured from records)14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, Leyla in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan, Li in CN China, TW Taiwan and Leila in GE Georgia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Լի 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈14,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | — | Li | 266 |
| MY Malaysia | #19 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 170 | 2.9K | Lee | 216 |
| TR Türkiye | #56 | 185,230as Leyla | 1 in 443 | 185K | Leyla | 114 |
| US United States | #31 | 164,578as Lee | 1 in 2K | 696K | Lee | 670 |
| GB United Kingdom | #38 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 464 | 2.2K | Lee | 408 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 263 | — | Li | 187 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #2 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 116 | 2.4K | Leyla | 79 |
| GE Georgia | #41 | 16,232as ლეილა | 1 in 246 | 16K | Leila | 39 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TÜİK NIP — most used given names; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lee Kuan Yewb. 1923SG1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
- Ang Leeb. 1954TWTaiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
- Jet Lib. 1963CNnot in their usual nameChinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people named Լի?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 million people named Li in China, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Malaysia, Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Լի?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 185,230 people named Leyla in 2025, about 1 in 443 residents.
- How common is Լի compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Լի is the 2nd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Լի?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D5%AC%D5%ABThe 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, “Լի” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.