لی

surname · Arabic script

Meaning: jeans

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

لی is a surname written in the Arabic script, most frequently recorded in Iran.

rarermore common
  • AFAfghanistan
  • IRIran
  • EGEgypt

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

jeans

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

لی is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ush, they, this

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Syngman Rhee, b. 1875Lee Kuan Yew, b. 1923Li Peng, b. 1928Lee Myung-bak, b. 1941Ang Lee, b. 1954Li Keqiang, b. 1955Lee Jae Myung, b. 1963Jet Li, b. 1963Yi So-Yeon, b. 1978Li Na, b. 1982
  • Syngman Rheeb. 1875KRnot in their usual namePresident of South Korea from 1948 to 1960
  • Lee Kuan Yewb. 1923SGnot in their usual name1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
  • Li Pengb. 1928CNnot in their usual name4th Premier of the People's Republic of China (1928–2019)
  • Lee Myung-bakb. 1941KRnot in their usual namePresident of South Korea from 2008 to 2013
  • Ang Leeb. 1954TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)
  • Li Keqiangb. 1955CNnot in their usual namePremier of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2023
  • Lee Jae Myungb. 1963KRnot in their usual namePresident of South Korea since 2025
  • Jet Lib. 1963CNnot in their usual nameChinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor
  • Yi So-Yeonb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean astronaut
  • Li Nab. 1982CNnot in their usual nameChinese tennis player

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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting لی
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IR Iranfarbodbj/iranian-surname-frequencies — Iranian surname frequencies—22#39,192

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name لی mean, and where does it come from?
jeans Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does لی have the most bearers?
لی is most frequently recorded in Iran.

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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, “لی”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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