Le (surname)


Le is a romanization of several rare East Asian surnames and a common Vietnamese surname.
It is a fairly common surname in the United States, ranked 975th during the 1990 census and 368th during the 2000 census. In 2000, it was the eighth-most-common surname among America's Asian and Pacific Islander population, predominantly from its Vietnamese use. It was also reported among the top 200 surnames in Ontario, Canada, based on a survey of that province's Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients as of the year 2000.

Origins of surname

Vietnamese

Lê is a common Vietnamese surname, written in Chữ Hán. It is pronounced in the Hanoi dialect and in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced in English, with it being commonly mistaken for another surname, with similar spelling and pronunciation in English, Lý.

Chinese

Mandarin
Le is the Pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname ; it is Lok in Cantonese.

Minnan

Lê or Le is the POJ romanization of the Chinese surname Li

People with the surname

Vietnamese

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