Lěi

given name · Latin script

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

Lěi is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: lei (“wreath; child”). Also a short form of numerous compound names containing the word lei.

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

lei (“wreath; child”). Also a short form of numerous compound names containing the word lei.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lěi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Lěi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—10K—
ES Spain—381—
BR Brazil—316—
SE Sweden—263—
DK Denmark—215—

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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lěi is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Philippines, China

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Lei, Le'I, Leí, Leï, Lei'

2 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1970198019902000Ding Lei, b. 1971Huang Lei, b. 1971Wu Lei, b. 1991
  • Ding Leib. 1971CNChinese internet entrepreneur and billionaire
  • Huang Leib. 1971CNChinese actor, singer
  • Wu Leib. 1991CNChinese footballer

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lěi 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 Lěi mean, and where does it come from?
lei (“wreath; child”). Also a short form of numerous compound names containing the word lei. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
Is Lěi a male or female name?
Lěi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Lěi have the most bearers?
Lěi is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Lěi” — ranked 3302nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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