Lee

Lee is a unisex given name from the English word ‘lee’. It is also used as a surname, often confused with the Old English surname and given name leah (“clearing; meadow”), which evolved to ‘leigh’ in Middle English, and present-day ‘lea’ with 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.