Ii
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ii is a name 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: Borrowed from Japanese 井伊 (Ii).
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 180as Leyla(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 183as Lee
- GEGeorgia1 in 246as ლეილა
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 Ii 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)
- Sources
- 670 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 180 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800,000 named Li, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est., as Leyla
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, Li in CN China, HK Hong Kong, TW Taiwan, Leyla in TR Türkiye, AZ Azerbaijan 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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Japanese 井伊 (Ii).
Sources 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ii 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 368 | — | Li | 266 |
| TR Türkiye | #56 | 185,230as Leyla | 1 in 443 | 185K | Leyla | 114 |
| MY Malaysia | #19 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 183 | 2.9K | Lee | 216 |
| US United States | #31 | 164,578as Lee | 1 in 2K | 696K | Lee | 670 |
| GB United Kingdom | #38 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 2.2K | Lee | 408 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 355 | — | Li | 187 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #2 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 180 | 2.4K | Leyla | 79 |
| HK Hong Kong | #63 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 309 | — | Li | 183 |
| 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ii is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In och, To sharpen; grindstone; whetstone; to polish; a stinging insect
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In och, Dragging something along; to wet clothes; to drag, train
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In Akan, kata-k o n m ii [nea ekata kon mu] mantle, shawl. o-katakyf(e), pi, a-, [also okwAtakyi] a gcdlant, a brave, val- iant, gallant, hold, undaunted, courageous, powerful man, herOt giant (F. Mt. 12,^9. Mk. Sf27.); onipa a oy§ nnam na ne ho ye den na oso, afj/a. obSran, dommanin; sometimes it is put for A:iw^; in pr. 2647. it is a by-name of the swallow, = bold, nimble; cf. akatanini
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, s li s 0 w, the first or great rainy season, from about April to July; cf, adom; as. atue, the rains have set in; afrihyia yim* as, ware, the rainy season lasts long this year. pr. 31.Vf. [G. agbien^.] ksusow-bere, rainy season; as. na mekg hayi se hayi. asuso-buro w, corn grown in the time of the early rains, opp. adommdrow
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In cdo, to weigh one's strength or ability, measure your action by your strength, to consider and judge, (hdk-céuliéng)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, on oval face, handsome M-FE the kernel of a melon seed, one official relieving another
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Ii Naomorib. 1506JPsamurai
- Ii Naomasab. 1561JPdaimyō
- Ii Naotakab. 1590JPdaimyo who served under the Tokugawa shogunate
- Ii Naotorab. 1600JPdaimyō of the Sengoku period
- Ii Naoyoshib. 1727(1727-1754)
- Ii Naosukeb. 1815JPdaimyo (1815-1860)
- Ii Naonorib. 1848JPdaimyo who ruled the Hikone Domain
- Ii Yōhōb. 1871JPJapanese actor (1871-1932)
- Naoyoshi Iib. 1910JPJapanese politician
- Atsushi Iib. 1939JPJapanese voice actor
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 565 | #39,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 541 | #43,067 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 224 | #79,115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 71 | #48,840 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 58 | #48,840 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 5 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ii mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese 井伊 (Ii). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Ii have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 million people named Li in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ii?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 185,230 people named Leyla in 2025, about 1 in 443 residents.
- How common is Ii compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Ii is the 2nd most common given name of 28,848 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iiThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ii” — the 2nd most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.