Le (surname)

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

It is a fairly common surname in the United States, ranked 975th during the 1990 census and 368th during the year 2000 one.[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]

Origins of surname

Mandarin

Minnan

Vietnam

List of Vietnamese people with the surname

See also

References

  1. US Census Bureau. Op. cit. Public Broadcasting Service. "How Popular Is Your Last Name?" Accessed 6 Apr 2012.
  2. "Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000". 27 Sep 2011.
  3. Lauderdale, Diane S.; et al. (2000). "Asian American ethnic identification by surname" (PDF). Population Research & Policy Review. 19: 283–300.
  4. Shah, B. R.; Chiu, M.; Amin, S.; Ramani, M.; Sadry, S.; Tu, J. V. (2010). "Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: A validation study". BMC Medical Research Methodology. 10: 42. PMC 2877682Freely accessible. PMID 20470433. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-10-42.
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