Name: Lee
Gender: Male
Usage: Lee, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Lee are in general originating from France, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Lee across the world, see Lea.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Lee is: Sheltered from the storm, Poetic.
Please feel free to read what others say about this name and to share your comments if you have more information.
N.B. Sometimes it happens that another name has the same meaning. There is nothing surprising in this: both names have the same origin or the same numbers of numerology.
To test the compatibility of the name Lee with another, enter a name here and click Name Compatibility
You will get a result that shows how much the two names match up.
Numerology of the first name Lee: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
Learn more with our free Numerology Tool
The name Lee is ranked on the 157th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 3469300 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.048% of the population. The name Lee has three characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Lee for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Lee is 22 March.
For other names check our Name Day Calendar
History and Origin
Lee is a given name derived from the English surname Lee (which is ultimately from a placename derived from Old English leah "clearing; meadow"). As the surname of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), the name became popular in the American South after the Civil War, its popularity peaking in 1900 at rank 39 as a masculine name, and in 1955 at rank 182 as a feminine name. The name's popularity declined steadily in the second half of the 20th century, falling below rank 1000 by 1991 as a feminine name, and to 666 as of 2012 as a masculine name. In the later 20th century, it also gained some popularity in the United Kingdom, peaking among the 20 most popular boys' names during the 1970s to 1980s, but it had fallen out of the top 100 by 2001.
Lee is also a hypocoristic form of the given names Ashley, Beverly, Kimberley, and Leslie (all of which are also derived from English placenames containing -leah as a second element; with the possible exception of Leslie, which may be an anglicization of a Gaelic placename).
English: transferred use of the surname, originally a local name from any of numerous places so called from Old English lēah wood or clearing. It is especially popular now in America, where it has sometimes been bestowed in honour of the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee (1807–70). As a female name, it may also be a variant of Lea (see Leah).
The section "History and Origin" of this page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Lee (given name)"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
We always try to deliver a high-quality service to our customers. If you consider the information on this page is incomplete or incorrect, please post a comment below. Thank you!
Comments