Lee (given name)

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Lee
GenderUnisex
Origin
Word/nameGreat Britain
MeaningFrom the English word 'lee', meaning "shelter(ed), protection, haven, sanctuary".
Region of originGreat Britain [citation needed]

Lee is a unisex given name from the English word 'lee'. Also used as a surname as one of derivative spellings often confused with the Old English surname and given name leah ("clearing; meadow"), which evolved to 'leigh' in Middle English, and present day 'lea' of the same meaning.

According to the Social Security Administration's popular baby name database, its popularity peaked in the United States 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 698 as of 2021 as a masculine name.[1] 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.[2]

Lee is also a hypocoristic form of the given names Ashley, Beverly, Kimberley, Leona, 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).

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People called Leee[edit]

Some people spell their name with three Es instead of two:

  • Leee Black Childers (born Lee Black Childers; 1945–2014), American avant-garde photographer and music manager
  • Leee John (born John Leslie McGregor; 1957), British pop musician

Fictional characters[edit]

  • Lee, a character in 1993 action/martial arts film Showdown
  • Lee, a character in the 1997 American comedy film Fathers' Day
  • Lee, played by Lee Mack in his sitcom Not Going Out
  • Lee, a character played by actor JR Reed in association with the comedy rock band Tenacious D
  • Lee Adama, fictional character in the television series Battlestar Galactica
  • Lee Brackett, a character in the horror film Halloween
  • L For Leeeeee x, a bear played by Scottish YouTuber Lee Carson on stampylonghead's channel until 2015
  • Lee Chaolan, character in the Tekken series
  • Lee Everett, the protagonist in the 2012 video game The Walking Dead
  • Lee Harris, a character in the television series American Horror Story: Roanoke
  • Lee Jordan, a character in the Harry Potter series
  • Lee Kanker, oldest of the Kanker sisters on Ed, Edd n Eddy
  • Lee McDermott, a character in Desperate Housewives
  • Lee Montgomery, a character in the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof
  • Lee, a video games character appear in first Street Fighter
  • Lee Ping, the protagonist of the television series Detentionaire
  • Lee Scoresby, a character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
  • Lee Sin, the Blind Monk, a playable champion character in the action real-time strategy video game League of Legends

Lee a character from Woody Allen's 1986 movie "Hannah and Her Sisters"

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Popular Baby Names".
  2. ^ babynames.co.uk

See also[edit]

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