Lẹ
given name · Latin script
Meaning: fast; quick; swift
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lẹ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 45(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 1.4K
- MOMacao≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #862 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lê in VN Vietnam, US United States, ID Indonesia and 1 more.
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)
fast; quick; swift
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lẹ 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.
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: Vietnamese Surname Corpus — academic citation compilation; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lẹ 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 Yoruba, to glue, gum, paste
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lẹ mean, and where does it come from?
- fast; quick; swift Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Lẹ a male or female name?
- Lẹ is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Lẹ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 million people named Lẹ in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lê.
- How common is the name Lẹ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 110,967 people named Lẹ in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Lẹ compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Lẹ is the 7th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lẹ?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%E1%BA%B9The 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, “Lẹ” — the 7th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.