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 year 2000 one. 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

Chinese

Mandarin
 Le is the pinyin romanization of the uncommon Chinese surname written  in traditional characters and  in simplified ones (Lè, lit. "happy", "happiness"). It was the 81st of the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames, but is not currently among the top hundred surnames in mainland China or on Taiwan.

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

Vietnamese
 Lê is a Vietnamese surname written  in Chữ Nôm. It is pronounced  in the Hanoi dialect and  in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced  in English.

People with the surname

Vietnamese

Lê
Anterior Lê Dynasty
The Lê Dynasty
Lê Công Vinh
Lê Duẩn 
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
Lê Khả Phiêu
 Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như, Vietnamese-American singer known as Như Quỳnh 
Lê Lợi
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
Lê Thánh Tông
Lê Tuấn Hùng

Le
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

Other people
 Francesca Le

See also
 Le (disambiguation)
 Lí (黎)
 Lee (Korean surname)

References

Category:Surnames
Category:Chinese-language surnames
Category:Vietnamese-language surnames