Le (surname)

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. In 2000, it was the eighth-most-common surname among America's Asian and Pacific Islander population, predominantly from its Vietnamese use. 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.

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

Chinese
Mandarin

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

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

Vietnamese

 * Lê
 * Anterior Lê dynasty
 * The Lê dynasty
 * Lê Công Vinh, football player
 * Lê Hoàn, founding emperor of the Anterior Lê dynasty
 * Dinh Q Lê
 * Lê Duẩn
 * Lê Đức Anh
 * Dowager Empress Gia Từ, originally of the Lê clan of Vĩnh Lộc District
 * Lê Hằng Phấn
 * Lê Huỳnh Đức, football player
 * Lê Khả Phiêu
 * Lê Lâm Quỳnh Như, Vietnamese-American singer known as Như Quỳnh
 * Lê Lợi, founding emperor of the Lê dynasty
 * Nguyên Lê
 * Lê Minh Đảo
 * Lê Nhân Tông
 * Lê Quan Ninh, French percussionist
 * Lê Quang Liêm, chess player
 * Lê Quang Tung, commander of ARVN Special Forces
 * Lê Quý Đôn
 * Lê Văn Duyệt, general of Gia Long and viceroy of southern Vietnam
 * Lê Văn Hưng
 * Lê Văn Khôi, adopted son of Le Van Duyet
 * Lê Văn Thiêm
 * Lê Thái Tông, second emperor of the Lê dynasty
 * Lê Thánh Tông, fifth emperor of the Lê dynasty
 * Lê Tuấn Hùng
 * Lê Long Đĩnh, the last emperor of the Anterior Lê dynasty


 * Le
 * Annie Le
 * Cung Le (born 1972), Vietnamese-born American martial artist
 * Duy-Loan Le
 * Hoang Le
 * Linda Le, Vietnamese-American cosplayer and model
 * Michelle Le
 * Minh Le
 * Tony Le-Nguyen
 * Thuy Thu Le
 * Tuan Le
 * Danny "Shiphtur" Le, Canadian League of Legends player

Chinese

 * Le Jingyi, a former swimmer from China who won the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, USA

Other

 * Nhi Le (born 1995) German journalist, speaker, discussion moderator and author.