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Le is a
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of several rare
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n surnames and a common Vietnamese surname. It is a fairly common surname in the
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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
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population, predominantly from its Vietnamese use. It was also reported among the top 200 surnames in
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, based on a survey of that province's Registered Persons Database of
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recipients as of the year 2000.


Origins of surname


Vietnamese

* Lê is a
Vietnamese surname Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order. * A family name (normally patrilineal, The father’s family name may be combined with the mother's family name to form a compound family name) ...
written in Hán-Nôm. It is pronounced in the Hanoi dialect and in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced in English, with it being mistaken for another surname, with similar spelling, .


Chinese

Mandarin * Le is the
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romanization of the Chinese surname (written in
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and 樂 in
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); 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, unlik ...
Li (, ''Lí'')


People with the surname


Vietnamese

;Lê *
Anterior Lê Dynasty Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position prov ...
*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 ...
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Lê Công Vinh Lê Công Vinh (born 10 December 1985, in Nghệ An, Vietnam) is a former Vietnamese footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associatio ...
, football player *
Lê Hoàn Lê Hoàn (10 August 941 – 18 March 1005), posthumously title Lê Đại Hành, was a Vietnamese emperor and the third ruler of Dai Viet kingdom, ruling from 981 to 1005. He first served as the generalissimo commanding a ten-thousand man ar ...
, founding emperor of the Anterior Lê Dynasty *
Dinh Q Lê Dinh may refer to: Dinh ''pronounced "zinh" or "yinh"'' * Dinh River (Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu), river in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, one of five rivers named Sông Dinh in Vietnam. * núi Dinh, hills in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, Vietnam Đình ''pronoun ...
*
Lê Duẩn Lê Duẩn (; 7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (VCP) at the 3rd Nati ...
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Lê Đức Anh Lê Đức Anh (1 December 1920 – 22 April 2019) was a Vietnamese politician and general who served as the fourth President of Vietnam from 1992 to 1997. He previously led the Vietnamese forces in Cambodia throughout the 1980s. He was regarde ...
* Dowager Empress Gia Từ, originally of the Lê clan of Vĩnh Lộc District * Lê Hằng Phấn *
Lê Huỳnh Đức Lê Huỳnh Đức (born April 20, 1972 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese football manager and former footballer. He is currently serving as technical director for V.League 1 side Saigon. Huỳnh Đức is a former member of the V ...
, 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 Vietn ...
* Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như, Vietnamese-American singer known as Như Quỳnh * Lê Lợi, founding emperor of the Lê Dynasty *
Nguyên Lê Nguyên Lê (Vietnamese: ''Lê Thành Nguyên''; born 14 January 1959) is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar, and he also plays bass guitar and guitar synthesizer. He has released albums ...
* Lê Minh Đảo *
Lê Nhân Tông Lê Nhân Tông (黎仁宗, 28 May 1441 – 25 October 1459), birth name Lê Bang Cơ (黎邦基) was the third emperor of the Later Lê dynasty from 1453 until his murder in a coup in 1459. He was a grandson of the emperor Lê Lợi. During nearl ...
* Lê Quan Ninh, French percussionist *
Lê Quang Liêm Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm is the current Asian champion and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013. ...
, chess player * Lê Quang Tung, commander of ARVN Special Forces *
Lê Quý Đôn Lê Quý Đôn (; 1726–1784) was an 18th-century Vietnamese poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế - Đường. He was a native of Duyen Ha village in present-day Thái Bình Province. He is considered one of the ...
* 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 unifi ...
and viceroy of southern Vietnam * Lê Văn Hưng *
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 *
Lê Thái Tông Lê Thái Tông (黎太宗 22 December 1423 – 28 August 1442), birth name Lê Nguyên Long (黎元龍), was the second emperor of the Later Lê dynasty from 1433 until his early death nine years later. __TOC__ Biography Lê Thái Tông w ...
, second emperor of the Lê dynasty *
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 emp ...
, fifth emperor of the Lê dynasty * Lê Tuấn Hùng *
Lê Long Đĩnh Lê Long Đĩnh (; 黎 龍 鋌, 15 November 986 – 19 November 1009), also known as Lê Ngọa Triều (黎臥朝), was the last emperor of the Early Lê family of the kingdom of Đại Cồ Việt, ruling from 1005 to 1009. After killing his ...
, the last emperor of the Anterior Lê dynasty ;Le *
Annie Le The murder of Annie Le occurred on September 8, 2009, while she was working in the New Haven, Connecticut campus of Yale University. Annie Marie Thu Le (July 3, 1985 – September 8, 2009) was a 24-year-old doctoral student at the Yale Scho ...
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Cung Le Cung Le ( vi, Lê Cung; born May 25, 1972) is a Vietnamese-born American actor, retired mixed martial artist, Sanshou fighter and kickboxer. He competed as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), holding a record of ...
(born 1972), Vietnamese-born American martial artist *
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 * Linda Le, Vietnamese-American cosplayer and model * 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 *
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, C ...
* Danny "Shiphtur" Le, Canadian ''League of Legends'' player


Chinese

* Le Jingyi, a former
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from
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who won the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle at the
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in
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, USA


Other people

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Francesca Le The ''AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') Hall of Fame has honored people for their work in the adult entertainment industry since 1995.Le (disambiguation) * Lí (黎) *
Lee (Korean surname) Lee, I, or Yi () is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김). Historically, 李 was officially written as Ni () in Korea. The spelling officially changed to I () in 1933 when the initial sound rule () was established. In ...


References

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