Le

At the 2020 census, 138,532 Americans bore the surname Le — 200th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,158.

By the numbers

People: 138,532
Rank: 200th
How common: 1 in 2,158
Per 100,000: 46.4

Where the name comes from

As a Chinese surname:.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Le described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.1%
White, not Hispanic 1.7%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Le

Le Duc Tho (1911–1990)Vietnamese diplomat
Lê Công Vinh (born 1985)Vietnamese professional football player
Le Duan (1907–1986)General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Le Duc Anh (1920–2019)4th president of Vietnam
Lê Thái Tổ (1384–1433)Founding Emperor of the Later Lê dynasty
Cung Le (born 1972)Vietnamese-American martial artist and actor
Le Kha Phieu (1931–2020)former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Shi Le (274–333)Emperor of Later Zhao from 330 to 333

People named Le with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Le

Also a first name

Le has been given to 1,653 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 1982. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.