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.[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

Chinese

Minnan

Vietnamese
  • Lê is a Vietnamese surname written 黎 in Chữ Nôm. It is pronounced /le˧˧/ in the Hanoi dialect and /lej˧˧/ in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced /leɪ/ in English.

People with the surname

Vietnamese

Other people
  • Francesca Le

See also

References
  1. US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Service. "How Popular Is Your Last Name?" Accessed 6 Apr 2012.
  2. "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000". 27 Sep 2011. 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. 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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