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Lee Lee name meaning

  • 莉莉jasmine, used in female names; jasmine, used in female names
  • 麗麗beautiful, lovely; beautiful, lovely
  • 俐俐clever; clever
Letters
6
Syllables
1
First letter
L
Romanization
Cantonese, Hokkien
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters莉莉麗麗俐俐
Peak 1970s: 13%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s11.4%
1970s13%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: L

Lee Lee is a Chinese female given name spelled after Cantonese and Hokkien pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 莉莉 or 麗麗.

Chinese characters for Lee Lee

This spelling is common in Cantonese and Hokkien romanization.

  • 莉莉

    jasmine, used in female names; jasmine, used in female names

    Cantonese lei6 lei6 / Hokkien lī lī / Mandarin lì lì

  • 麗麗

    beautiful, lovely; beautiful, lovely

    Hokkien lē lē / Mandarin lì lì

  • 俐俐

    clever; clever

    Cantonese lei6 lei6 / Hokkien lī lī / Mandarin lì lì

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name Lee Lee

Lee Lee is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Cantonese and Hokkien pronunciation. Lee can be written 莉 (jasmine, used in female names), 麗 (beautiful, lovely) or 俐 (clever), repeated. The spelling Lee matches Cantonese lei6 (莉, 俐) and Hokkien lī (莉, 俐) or lē (麗). Example character combinations are 莉莉, 麗麗 or 俐俐, but the same spelling can stand for other characters, so the meaning depends on the characters the family chose. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1970s with 1,306 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationCantonese, Hokkien
PartsLee
First letterChinese Names starting with L

Lee Lee in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 1,073 · 11.4%
1970s
Girl: 1,306 · 13%
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Lee Lee as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 莉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 麗 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 俐 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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