Lëë

Name: Lëë: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Lëë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: * (Chinese surname): From Hokkien 李 (Lí) & Cantonese 李 (Lei⁵), via English Lee. * (Korean surname): From Korean 리(李) (Ri), via English Lee.

MYMalaysia≈1 in 170(inferred from the name graph)
HKHong Kong≈1 in 280
SGSingapore≈1 in 360

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 Lëë 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 170 (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

LëëLatin

ЛейлаCyrillic

ליליHebrew

ไลลาThai

ԼիլիArmenian

ლეილაGeorgian

리리Hangul

ΙιGreek

ለኢላEthiopic

11 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

Lëë

Hokkien李Lí(measured from records)
EnglishLee(measured from records)
Korean리李(measured from records)
EnglishLee(measured from records)

* (Chinese surname): From Hokkien 李 (Lí) & Cantonese 李 (Lei⁵), via English Lee. * (Korean surname): From Korean 리(李) (Ri), via English Lee.

Cited for this meaning 8

A concise dictionary of first names
DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Dictionary of American Family Names
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wiktionary

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Lëë 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.

Where Lëë is recorded, by country
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	164,578	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).

Other names spelled this way

Lëë is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Vietnamese given name7 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom
Also written Lee, Lêê, Lêe, Lê-Ê, Leê
Spanish given name16 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Colombia, Argentina
Languages: Spanish, Italian
Also written Lee, Leé, Léé, Leè, Lee'
French given name47 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Languages: French, Catalan
Also written Lee, Lée, Léé, Leë, Lëe
Indonesian given name15 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines
Also written Lee, Lee', 'Lee, Leè, Leé
a separate given name32 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia
Also written Lee, Lée, Lëe, Lėé, Lêê
Urdu given name4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Pakistan
Also written Lee, Ľêė, Leè

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lëë under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lëë mean, and where does it come from?: * (Chinese surname): From Hokkien 李 (Lí) & Cantonese 李 (Lei⁵), via English Lee. * (Korean surname): From Korean 리(李) (Ri), via English Lee. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
In which country does Lëë have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 14 million people named Li in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Lëë?: In the United States, the national register counted 164,578 people named Lëë in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Lëë compared with other names?: In Azerbaijan, Lëë is the 2nd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.

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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 2026-10-13 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, “Lëë” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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