Le (surname) explained
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.[1] In 2000, it was the eighth-most-common surname among America's Asian and Pacific Islander population,[2] predominantly from its Vietnamese use.[3] 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.[4]
Origins of surname
Vietnamese
Lê is a common Vietnamese surname (third most common), written Chinese: {{linktext|黎 in Chữ Hán. It is pronounced pronounced as //le˧˧// in the Hanoi dialect and pronounced as //lej˧˧// in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced pronounced as //liː// 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 (written 乐 in Simplified Chinese characters and 樂 in Traditional Chinese characters); it is Lok in Cantonese.
Minnan
Lê or Le is the POJ romanization of the Chinese surname Li (Chinese: {{linktext|黎, Lí)
People with the surname
Vietnamese
- Lê
- Anterior Lê dynasty
- The Lê dynasty
- Lê Công Vinh, football player
- Lê Hoàn, founding emperor of the Anterior Lê dynasty
- Dinh Q Lê
- Lê Duẩn
- Lê Đức Anh
- Dowager Empress Gia Từ, originally of the Lê clan of Vĩnh Lộc District
- Lê Hằng Phấn
- Lê Huỳnh Đức, football player
- Lê Khả Phiêu
- Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như, Vietnamese-American singer known as Như Quỳnh Lê Lợi, founding emperor of the Lê dynasty
- Nguyên Lê
- Lê Minh Đảo
- Lê Nhân Tông
- Lê Quan Ninh, French percussionist
- Lê Quang Liêm, chess player
- Lê Quang Tung, commander of ARVN Special Forces
- Lê Quý Đôn
- Lê Văn Duyệt, general of Gia Long and viceroy of southern Vietnam
- Lê Văn Hưng
- Lê Văn Khôi, adopted son of Le Van Duyet
- Lê Văn Thiêm
- Lê Thái Tông, second emperor of the Lê dynasty
- Lê Thánh Tông, fifth emperor of the Lê dynasty
- Le
Chinese
Other
- Nhi Le (born 1995) German journalist, speaker, discussion moderator and author.
See also
Notes and References
- [US Census Bureau]
- Web site: Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000 . 27 Sep 2011 .
- Lauderdale, Diane S. . Asian American ethnic identification by surname . Population Research and Policy Review . 19 . 3 . 283–300 . 2000 . etal . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130102225939/http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/resources/asian_american_surname_methods.pdf . 2013-01-02 . 10.1023/A:1026582308352 . 151050659 .
- Shah . B. R. . Chiu . M. . Amin . S. . Ramani . M. . Sadry . S. . Tu . J. V. . 10.1186/1471-2288-10-42 . Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: A validation study . BMC Medical Research Methodology . 10 . 42 . 2010 . 20470433. 2877682 . free .
