- Rank in 2025
- #725
- Best ever
- #39 in 1900
- US births since 1880
- 233,627
- Born in 2025
- 366
- Trend
- Stable last 10 years
Meaning
- Plum
- Healer
- Dweller in the gray castle
- Poetic
- Woman
- Poet
- The king
- Small meadow
- moor, meadow
Also a girl’s name. See Lee for girls — 62,299 recorded US births.
Births 1880–2025
Peak 3,682 in 1951. Stable over the last ten years.
Where in the US
- TX21,197
- CA16,902
- NY15,903
- PA14,399
- IL12,487
Recorded births, states with 5+ per year only. State records cover 92% of this name's national total.