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Lee Gender Unisex Word/name Great Britain Meaning From the English word 'lee', meaning "shelter(ed), protection, haven, sanctuary". Region of origin Great Britain [
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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 the early 1900's ranking 39 as a masculine name, and in 1955 ranking 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.
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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.
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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).
People
A–G
Lee Allen (musician) (1927–1994), American tenor saxophonist
Lee Andrews (1936–2016), American singer, leader of the doo-wop group Lee Andrews & the Hearts
Lee Bowyer , English footballer
Lee Boylan , English footballer
Lee Boysel , American electrical engineer
Lee Brewster (1943-2000), American drag queen, transgender activist, and retailer
Lee C. White , advisor to President Kennedy and Johnson
Lee Camp (footballer) , Northern Irish footballer
Lee Cattermole , English footballer
Lee Clark (footballer) , English footballer and manager
Lee Croft , English footballer
Lee DeWyze , American singer and the winner of Season 9 of American Idol
Lee Dickson , English rugby player
Lee Dixon , English footballer
Lee Dorrian , singer, Napalm Death, Cathedral
R. Lee Ermey (1944–2018), American Marine drill instructor and actor
Lee Evans , English comedian and actor
Lee Feldman (businessman) (born 1967/68), American lawyer and businessman
Lee Fierro (1929–2020), American actress
Lee Gaze , guitarist for Lostprophets
Lee Germon , New Zealand cricket player
Lee Gibson (born 1991), Scottish footballer
Lee Grant (born October 31, 1927), American actress and director
Lee Grant (disambiguation)
Lee Greenwood , American country music singer known for the song "God Bless the USA"
Lee Grosscup (1936–2020), American football player and sportscaster
Elbert Lee Guillory , Louisiana African-American Republican
H–M
Lee Hall (artist) (1934–2017), American abstract expressionist painter, educator, writer, university president
Lee Harding , Australian singer
Lee Harvey Oswald , assassin of John F. Kennedy
Lee Hendrie , English footballer
Lee Hughes , English footballer
Lee Iacocca , chairman of Chrysler Corporation
Lee J. Ames (1921–2011), American artist
Lee J. Cobb , American actor
Lee James (disambiguation)
Lee Johnson (disambiguation)
Lee Kerslake (1947–2020), English musician
Lee Kiefer , American fencer, 2021 Olympic gold medalist
Lee Konitz , American jazz alto saxophonist
Lee Korzits , Israeli world champion windsurfer
Lee Krasner (1908–1984), American abstract expressionist painter
Lee Lorenz (1932-2022), American cartoonist
Lee Mack , English comedian and actor
Lee Majors , American actor
Lee Boyd Malvo (born 1985), one of the two
D.C. Snipers
Lee Marshall , American announcer
Lee Martin (disambiguation)
Lee Marvin , American actor
Lee Matthews (footballer) (born 1979), English football striker
Lee Matthews (singer) (born 1988), Irish pop singer formerly known as Lee Mulhern, also known as Lee.M
Lee Mavers , English musician
Lee McConnell , Scottish track and field athlete
Lee McCulloch , Scottish footballer
Lee McKenzie , Scottish journalist and presenter
Lee Meriwether , American actress
Lee Miller (1907–1977), American fashion model, photographer, war photojournalist
Lee Minto (born 1927), American women's health advocate and sex education activist
Lee Morgan , an American hard bop trumpeter
Lee Mossop , English rugby player
N–Z
Lee Nailon , American NBA basketball player and 2007 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
Lee Naylor (disambiguation)
Lee Newton , American actress and comedian
Lee Nguyen , American soccer player
Lee Nicholls , English footballer
Lee Norris , American actor
Lee Novak , English footballer
Lee O'Connor (disambiguation)
Lee Ocran , Ghanaian politician
Lee Olesky , American business executive
Lee Oser , American novelist and literary critic
Lee Oskar , Danish harmonica player
Lee Pace , American actor
Lee Peltier , English footballer
Lee "Scratch" Perry , Jamaican musician
Lee Probert , English football referee
Lee Quiñones (born 1960 as George Quiñones), American graffiti artist
Lee Ranaldo , guitarist (and occasional vocalist) for Sonic Youth
Lee Remick , American actress
Lee Richard , American baseball player
Lee Greene Richards , American painter
Lee Rigby , British soldier murdered by Islamists in Woolwich, London
Lee Riley , American football player
Lee Ritenour , American jazz guitarist
Lee Roberts , American actor
Lee Roberts (basketball) , American basketball player
Lee Robertson , Scottish footballer
Lee Robinson (disambiguation)
Lee Rogers (disambiguation)
Lee Ryan , English singer
Lee Sampson , Canadian football player
Lee Sandales , set decorator
Lee Sharpe , English footballer
Lee Smith (disambiguation)
Lee Snoots (1892-1968), American football player
Lee Stensness , New Zealand rugby player
Lee Stevens , American baseball player
Lee Strobel , Christian apologist
Lee Tamahori , New Zealand director
Lee Tergesen , American actor
Lee Trevino , American golfer
Chrystelle Lee Trump Bond (1938–2020), American dancer, choreographer, and dance historian
Lee Trundle , English footballer
Lee Unkrich , American director, editor, screenwriter and animator
Lee Van Cleef , American actor
Lee Ving , guitarist and singer of the American hardcore punk band Fear
Lee Westwood , English golfer
Lee Wiley , American jazz singer from the big band era
Lee Williamson , Jamaican footballer
Lee Williamson (American football) , American football player
Lee Winter , Australian novelist
Lee Zeldin (born 1980), Republican United States Congressman, former New York state senator
People called Leee
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
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
See also