Lëh
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lëh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: perhaps an altered spelling of Loh, a habitational name from any of numerous places named Loh or Lohe. This name is found chiefly in PA.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 553K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 112K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, 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 Leh in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 3 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)
perhaps an altered spelling of Loh, a habitational name from any of numerous places named Loh or Lohe. This name is found chiefly in PA.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lëh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Leh | 36 |
| US United States | 601 | 1 in 553K | 601 | Leh | 175 |
| PH Philippines | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 645K | — | Leh | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Leh | 30 |
| FR France | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 535K | 5 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Leh | 24 |
| IE Ireland | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Leh | 2 |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 15 | 1 in 282K | 16 | — | — |
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 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Lëh mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps an altered spelling of Loh, a habitational name from any of numerous places named Loh or Lohe. This name is found chiefly in PA. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Lëh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Lëh in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leh.
- How common is the name Lëh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 601 people named Lëh in 2010, about 1 in 553 thousand residents.
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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, “Lëh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.