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.[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

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Spelling and Pronunciation of Lê in Vietnamese

Spelling and Pronunciation of Lê

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### Vietnamese

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Lê is a common Vietnamese surname (third most common), written 黎 in Chữ Hán. It is pronounced /le˧˧/ in the Hanoi dialect and /lej˧˧/ in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced /liː/ in English, with it being commonly mistaken for another surname, with similar spelling and pronunciation in English, Lý.

### Chinese

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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

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Lê or Le is the POJ romanization of the Chinese surname Li (黎, Lí)

## People with the surname

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### Vietnamese

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* 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
* Lê Tuấn Hùng
* Lê Long Đĩnh, the last emperor of the Anterior Lê dynasty

* Annie Le
* Cung Le (born 1972), Vietnamese-born American martial artist
* Duy-Loan Le
* Hoang Le
* Linda Le, Vietnamese-American cosplayer and model
* Michelle Le
* Minh Le
* Tony Le-Nguyen
* Thuy Thu Le
* Tuan Le
* Danny "Shiphtur" Le, Canadian League of Legends player

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### Chinese

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* Le Jingyi, a former swimmer from China who won the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA

### Other

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* Nhi Le (born 1995) German journalist, speaker, discussion moderator and author.

## See also

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* Le (disambiguation)
* Lí (黎)
* Lee (Korean surname)

## References

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1. ^ US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Service. "How Popular Is Your Last Name? Archived 2015-11-27 at the Wayback Machine" Accessed 6 Apr 2012.
2. ^ "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000". 27 Sep 2011. `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|url=` (help)
3. ^ Lauderdale, Diane S.; et al. (2000). "Asian American ethnic identification by surname" (PDF). Population Research and Policy Review. 19 (3): 283–300. doi:10.1023/A:1026582308352. S2CID 151050659. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-02.
4. ^ Shah, B. R.; Chiu, M.; Amin, S.; Ramani, M.; Sadry, S.; Tu, J. V. (2010). "Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: A validation study". BMC Medical Research Methodology. 10: 42. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-10-42. PMC 2877682. PMID 20470433.

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