Le is a
romanization
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of several rare
East Asia
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n surnames and a common Vietnamese surname.
It is a fairly common surname in the
United States
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, ranked 975th during the
1990 census and 368th during the
2000 census. In 2000, it was the eighth-most-common surname among America's
Asian and Pacific Islander
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population,
predominantly from its Vietnamese use.
It was also reported among the top 200 surnames in
Ontario
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,
Canada
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, based on a survey of that province's
Registered Persons Database
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of
Canadian health card
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recipients as of the year 2000.
Origins of surname
Vietnamese
* Lê is a
Vietnamese surname written in
Hán-Nôm. It is pronounced in the
Hanoi dialect and in the
Saigon dialect
The phonology of Vietnamese features 19 consonant phonemes, with 5 additional consonant phonemes used in Vietnamese's Southern dialect, and 4 exclusive to the Northern dialect. Vietnamese also has 14 vowel nuclei, and 6 tones that are integral t ...
. It is usually pronounced in English, with it being mistaken for another surname, with similar spelling,
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
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the ...
Li (, ''Lí'')
People with the surname
Vietnamese
;Lê
*
Anterior Lê Dynasty
*The
Lê Dynasty
The Lê dynasty, also known as Later Lê dynasty ( vi, Hậu Lê triều, chữ Hán: 後黎朝 or vi, nhà Hậu Lê, link=no, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, ruling Đại Việt from 1428 to 1789. The Lê ...
*
Lê Công Vinh, football player
*
Lê Hoàn, founding emperor of the Anterior Lê Dynasty
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Dinh Q Lê
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Lê Duẩn
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Lê Đức Anh
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Dowager Empress Gia Từ
Dowager Empress Gia Từ of Lê clan ( Chữ Hán: 嘉慈皇太后 黎氏, ? - 1381) was the consort of Trần dynasty.
Biography
Lady Gia Từ was born at Đại Lại village, Vĩnh Lộc district, Ái Châu, Thanh Hoa town (now Hà Đông ...
, originally of the Lê clan of
Vĩnh Lộc District
*
Lê Hằng Phấn Lê Hằng Phấn (died c.1990 in Bowie, Maryland) was the second daughter of a Vietnamese scholar Sở Cuồng Lê Dư.
She was one among the four sisters: Lê Hằng Phương - Lê Hằng Phấn - Lê Hằng Huân - Lê Hằng Trang. The four ...
*
Lê Huỳnh Đức, football player
*
Lê Khả Phiêu
Lê Khả Phiêu (27 December 1931 – 7 August 2020) was a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from December 1997 to April 2001.Gainsborough 2010, p. 143 Lê Khả Phiêu served in the Viet ...
* Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như, Vietnamese-American singer known as
Như Quỳnh
Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như ( or ; born 9 September 1970), known professionally as Như Quỳnh ( or ), is a Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese-American singer. Performing Vietnamese popular music in the Overseas Vietnamese, diaspora, she is internation ...
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Lê Lợi, founding emperor of the Lê Dynasty
*
Nguyên Lê
*
Lê Minh Đảo
Lê Minh Đảo (5 March 1933 – 19 March 2020) was a South Vietnamese major general who led the 18th Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), nicknamed "The Super Men", at Xuân Lộc, the last major battle of the Vietna ...
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Lê Nhân Tông
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Lê Quan Ninh
Lê Quan Ninh (born Paris, 1961) is a French percussionist active in contemporary music and free improvisation.
He began studying piano at the age of 7, but turned towards percussion as a teenager. When he was 16, he entered the National Con ...
, French percussionist
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Lê Quang Liêm, chess player
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Lê Quang Tung, commander of ARVN Special Forces
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Lê Quý Đôn
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Lê Văn Duyệt, general of
Gia Long
Gia Long ( (''North''), ('' South''); 8 February 1762 – 3 February 1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (阮福暎) or Nguyễn Ánh, was the founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last dynasty of Vietnam. His dynasty would rule the unif ...
and viceroy of southern Vietnam
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Lê Văn Hưng
Lê Văn Hưng (March 27, 1933 – April 30, 1975) was an infantry general of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
Early life
Hưng was born in Hóc Môn, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, and was raised by his widowed mother, Trương Thị ...
*
Lê Văn Khôi
( vi-hantu, 黎文 ; died 1834) was the adopted son of the Vietnamese general Lê Văn Duyệt. He led the 1833–1835 Lê Văn Khôi revolt against Emperor Minh Mạng, but died in 1834.
As Duyệt was being prosecuted and his relatives condem ...
, adopted son of Le Van Duyet
*
Lê Văn Thiêm
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Lê Thái Tông, second emperor of the Lê dynasty
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Lê Thánh Tông
Lê Thánh Tông (黎聖宗; 25 August 1442 – 3 March 1497), personal name Lê Hạo, temple name Thánh Tông, courtesy name Tư Thành, was an emperor of Đại Việt, reigning from 1460 to 1497, the fifth and the longest-reigning empe ...
, fifth emperor of the Lê dynasty
*
Lê Tuấn Hùng
Lê Tuấn Hùng (born 1960 in Vietnam) is an Australian-Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. Known as a skilled perfor ...
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Lê Long Đĩnh, the last emperor of the Anterior Lê dynasty
;Le
*
Annie Le
*
Cung Le (born 1972), Vietnamese-born American martial artist
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Duy-Loan Le
Duy-Loan T. Le (born 1962, Vietnam) is an engineer and the first woman and Asian elected as a Texas Instruments Senior Fellow.
Early life
Born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, in 1962 to a labor-class family,Nguyen, Cuong Quoc"Vietnamese Defies Odds ...
*
Hoang Le
Huang (; ) is a Chinese surname that originally means and refers to jade people were wearing and decorating in ancient times. While ''Huáng'' is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also be romanized as Hwang, Wong, Waan, Wan, Waon, Hwon ...
*
Linda Le, Vietnamese-American cosplayer and model
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Michelle Le
*
Minh Le
Minh Le (Vietnamese: Lê Minh), also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese Canadian video game programmer who co-created the ''Half-Life'' mod ''Counter-Strike'' with Jess Cliffe in 1999 and started the ''Counter-Strike'' seri ...
*
Tony Le-Nguyen
Tony Le-Nguyen is a Vietnamese Australians, Vietnamese-Australian actor, filmmaker and teacher. Le-Nguyen is perhaps best known for his role as Tiger in the 1992 Australian drama film ''Romper Stomper''.
Early life
Le-Nguyen was born in as Lê ...
*
Thuy Thu Le
Thuy Thu Le (born August 23, 1966) is a retired Vietnamese-American actress.
Biography
Thuy Thu Le was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. She was raised and educated in the United States, after her parents left Saigon during the Vietnam War. Le w ...
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Tuan Le
Tuan Le (born February 15, 1978 in Paris, France) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.
Of Vietnamese ancestry, Le was raised in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States, but by middle school age he was living in Los Angeles, Ca ...
*
Danny "Shiphtur" Le, Canadian ''League of Legends'' player
Chinese
*
Le Jingyi, a former
swimmer
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from
China
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who won the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta,
USA
Other people
*
Francesca Le
See also
*
Le (disambiguation)
*
Lí (黎)
*
Lee (Korean surname)
Lee, Revised Romanization of Korean, I, or Yi () is the List of South Korean surnames by prevalence, second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (Korean surname), Kim (김). Historically, 李 was officially written as Ni () in Korea. The ...
References
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Surnames
Chinese-language surnames
Vietnamese-language surnames
Hokkien-language surnames
Surnames of Vietnamese origin
vi:Lê (họ)