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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Derived from Old English lēah = 'wood', 'clearing' (see also LEAH) [1] [2] [3]

Related Names

Lee ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Combinations

For combinations see LEAH

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Lee
Genitive: Lees
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Lee
Genitive: Leen
Partitive: Leetä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Lee
Genitive: Lees
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Lee
Genitive: Lees

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden:
    • In January 1973, 58 people (female) were named Lee (percentage of first or only given name: 48 %) [5]
    • In January 1973, 30 people (male) were named Lee (percentage of first or only given name: 37 %) [5]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[6]
684 3261 316 1490 368 1771
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 1028
n.a.
 339
n.a.
 689
Denmark Denmark[8]
161
n.a.
 61
n.a.
 100
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[9]
10 51
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
136
n.a.
 29
n.a.
 107
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Statistics as female name

Recent statistics trend[6][8][11][7]:Name statistics for Lee (f)

Sources: [6] [8] [11] [7]

Statistics as male name

Recent statistics trend[6][8][11][7]:Name statistics for Lee (m)

Sources: [6] [8] [11] [7]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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