Lîë
surname · Latin script
Lîë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
- USUnited States1 in 307K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 376
- DKDenmark1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- 1 in 376 (inferred from the name graph)
14,534 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lie in NO Norway, US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)- Middle Englishlien(measured from records)
- Old Englishliċġan(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*liggjan(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*ligjaną(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-(measured from records)
From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian lizze, Dutch liggen, German liegen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ligge, Swedish ligga, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk liggja, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan); and with Latin lectus (“bed”), Irish luí, Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ), Albanian lag (“troop, band, encampment”). As a noun for position, the noun has the same etymology above as the verb.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A Handbook of African Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lîë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #670 | 14,534 | 1 in 376 | 15K | Lie | 63 |
| US United States | — | 1,083 | 1 in 307K | 1.1K | Lie | 209 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 625 | 1 in 28K | 625 | Lie | 42 |
| DK Denmark | — | 312 | 1 in 19K | 312 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 258 | 1 in 40K | 258 | — | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | 29 | 1 in 192K | 45 | — | 3 |
14,534 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 Lîë mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English lien, liggen, from Old English liċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *liggjan, from Proto-Germanic *ligjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Lîë have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Lîë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lie.
- Where is Lîë most common?
- Lîë is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 376 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lîë?
- In Norway, the national register counted 14,534 people named Lîë, about 1 in 376 residents.
- How common is Lîë compared with other names?
- In Norway, Lîë is the 670th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%AE%C3%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, “Lîë” — the 670th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.