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Origine of last name

LEE : 1: English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land Middle English lee lea from Old English lēa dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.2: English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood glade’ including Lee in Buckinghamshire Essex Hampshire Kent and Shropshire and Lea in Cheshire Derbyshire Herefordshire Lancashire Lincolnshire and Wiltshire.3: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Ó Laoidhigh ‘descendant of Laoidheach’ a personal name derived from laoidh ‘poem song’ (originally a byname for a poet).4: Americanized form of Norwegian <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lie">Lie</a> or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Li">Li</a> 11.5: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 李 黎 利 栗 厲 and 酈. See <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Li">Li</a> 1-6.6: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 雷 see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lei">Lei</a> 1.7: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 呂 see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lu">Lu</a> 6.8: Southeast Asian (Hmong): variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Ly">Ly</a> 2.9: Southeast Asian (Iu Mien): from the name of the Lee clan of the Iu Mien people from Laos. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Saelee">Saelee</a>.10: Korean: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Yi">Yi</a> 1. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Lie">Lie</a> 3.

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