Sae-Lee
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sae-Lee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Iu Mien [Term?].
- USUnited States1 in 156K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 4.9Kas แซ่ลี้
- COColombia≈1 in 68K
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 Sae-Lee 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 named แซ่ลี้, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saelee in US United States, CA Canada, CO Colombia and 2 more and แซ่ลี้ in TH Thailand.
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)
From Iu Mien [Term?].
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sae-Lee 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #20 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | #684,790 | แซ่ลี้ | 109 |
| US United States | — | 2,129 | 1 in 156K | 2.8K | Saelee | 168 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Saelee | 2 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Saelee | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Saelee | 6 |
| LS Lesotho | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Saelee | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Sae-Lee mean, and where does it come from?
- From Iu Mien [Term?]. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sae-Lee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named แซ่ลี้ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sae-Lee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,129 people named Sae-Lee in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
- How common is Sae-Lee compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Sae-Lee is the 20th most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sae-leeThe 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, “Sae-Lee” — the 20th most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.