- Rank in 2025
- #5,722
- Best ever
- #183 in 1955
- US births since 1880
- 62,299
- Born in 2025
- 21
- Trend
- Stable last 10 years
Meaning
- Plum
- Healer
- Dweller in the gray castle
- Poetic
- Woman
- Poet
- The king
- Small meadow
- moor, meadow
Also a boy’s name. See Lee for boys — 233,627 recorded US births.
Births 1880–2025
Peak 1,937 in 1956. 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.