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Lee
Pronounced /liː/
Rank in 2024
#714
Born in 2024
370
Peak year
1951 · #92
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:25 in 2024 (#5,201)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 370 boys were named Lee, about 1 in every 4,636.
- It peaked in 1951 with 3,682 babies, ranked #92.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 233,256 boys 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.
- 2.3Greatest1901–27
- 2.2Silent1928–45
- 1.8Boomers1946–64
- 1.4Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 38,928 babies, 2.33 per 1,000. Silent: 45,394 babies, 2.20 per 1,000. Boomers: 65,725 babies, 1.75 per 1,000. Gen X: 38,086 babies, 1.40 per 1,000. Millennials: 24,857 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,956 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,306 babies, 0.20 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.