Leï

given name · Latin script

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

Leï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lei (“wreath; child”). Also a short form of numerous compound names containing the word lei.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 52K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 39K
  • DKDenmark1 in 73K

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.

United States (measured from records)

6,455 people, 2020

Sources
327 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lei in US United States, HK Hong Kong.

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.

Sources 2

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Leï 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 Leï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6,4551 in 52K10KLei327
ES Spain—3811 in 131K381—28
BR Brazil—2971 in 713K316—2
SE Sweden—2631 in 39K263—10
PL Poland—1241 in 309K90—2
DK Denmark—801 in 73K215—2
FI Finland—431 in 130K134—7
IS Iceland—31 in 117K3——
HK Hong Kong#709———Lei49

6,455 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Leï is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, United Kingdom, Taiwan

    Also written Lei, Léi

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Lei

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States, Italy, Philippines

    Also written Lei, Léi

  • Hebrew given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, United Kingdom, China

    Also written ליי, Leigh, Lay, Lei, Ley

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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Leï 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 Leï 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 Leï a male or female name?
Leï 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 Leï have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Leï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lei.
Where is Leï most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Leï is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Leï?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,455 people named Leï in 2020, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
How common is Leï compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Leï is the 709th most common given name of 23,276 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 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, “Leï” — the 709th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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