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Le (surname)

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Le is a romanization of several rare East Asian surnames and a common Vietnamese surname.

It is a fairly common surname in the United States, ranked 975th during the 1990 census and 368th during the 2000 census.[1] In 2000, it was the eighth-most-common surname among America's Asian and Pacific Islander population,[2] predominantly from its Vietnamese use.[3] It was also reported among the top 200 surnames in Ontario, Canada, based on a survey of that province's Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients as of the year 2000.[4]

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Origins of surname

Vietnamese

is a common Vietnamese surname (third most common), written in Chữ Hán. It is pronounced /le˧˧/ in the Hanoi dialect and /lej˧˧/ in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced /liː/ in English, with it being commonly mistaken for another surname, with similar spelling and pronunciation in English, .

Chinese

Mandarin

Le is the Pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (written in Simplified Chinese characters and 樂 in Traditional Chinese characters); it is Lok in Cantonese.

Minnan

or Le is the POJ romanization of the Chinese surname Li (, )

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People with the surname

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Other

  • Nhi Le (born 1995) German journalist, speaker, discussion moderator and author.
  • Tamara Le, American politician
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