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Lee
Pronounced /liː/
Rank in 2024
#5,201
Born in 2024
25
Peak year
1956 · #184
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:370 in 2024 (#714)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 25 girls were named Lee, about 1 in every 64,528.
- It peaked in 1956 with 1,937 babies, ranked #184.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 62,278 girls have been named Lee since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Lee per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 0.7Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 9,304 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Silent: 8,937 babies, 0.43 per 1,000. Boomers: 24,341 babies, 0.68 per 1,000. Gen X: 13,186 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,085 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Z: 683 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 294 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English lēa, the dative case of lēah (“meadow”), originally to denote someone who lived near a meadow. ==== Alternative forms ==== Lea, Leigh ==== Proper noun ==== Lee (countable and uncountable, plural Lees) An English topographic surname from Middle English. A unisex given name. A male given name. A female given name. A placename, for example: A number of places in England: A hamlet in Berrynarbor parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5546). A small village in Ilfracombe parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS4846).
- A unisex given name.
- A male given name.
- A female given name.
- A male given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /liː/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0.