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The name Lee is of English origin, and means meadow. The table below indicates the number of times the name Lee has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Lee**
Use of the Name Lee for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
225,729	100,420	31,017	5,476	2,254	807	409

The table below indicates the number of times the name Lee has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Lee**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	43	361	300	28
1881	44	342	259	39
1882	41	427	266	43
1883	43	388	241	55
1884	43	435	277	48
1885	50	348	295	46
1886	47	399	354	37
1887	44	400	273	60
1888	48	430	305	61
1889	46	415	273	77
1890	44	410	333	58
1891	52	342	305	68
1892	46	460	326	68
1893	46	445	332	66
1894	45	455	305	83
1895	47	478	283	98
1896	48	455	341	73
1897	47	453	293	97
1898	46	498	294	111
1899	50	389	308	94
1900	39	675	278	138
1901	46	424	305	95
1902	46	475	269	134
1903	45	477	297	111
1904	45	533	269	138
1905	49	486	253	165
1906	58	436	271	150
1907	54	515	246	192
1908	51	553	246	197
1909	52	582	257	195
1910	49	742	256	223
1911	67	644	245	257
1912	78	1,029	253	312
1913	78	1,226	272	293
1914	84	1,452	254	404
1915	84	1,921	280	442
1916	83	2,010	275	475
1917	85	2,002	283	479
1918	86	2,157	281	506
1919	82	2,189	289	483
1920	82	2,326	280	542
1921	85	2,355	304	461
1922	83	2,372	291	499
1923	85	2,355	294	490
1924	83	2,424	303	489
1925	82	2,526	292	532
1926	85	2,323	285	541
1927	86	2,381	303	491
1928	87	2,274	294	510
1929	85	2,214	303	479
1930	82	2,356	310	461
1931	90	2,109	297	451
1932	84	2,286	294	457
1933	79	2,291	310	402
1934	79	2,379	306	418
1935	80	2,430	279	476
1936	77	2,407	291	441
1937	78	2,501	298	435
1938	80	2,570	296	450
1939	78	2,590	286	477
1940	79	2,632	283	491
1941	81	2,740	283	521
1942	87	2,936	282	583
1943	91	2,765	284	597
1944	85	2,926	280	597
1945	87	2,927	257	690
1946	91	3,344	248	804
1947	92	3,662	255	855
1948	93	3,435	263	841
1949	93	3,550	270	817
1950	91	3,610	268	819
1951	92	3,674	258	892
1952	93	3,636	256	946
1953	93	3,573	254	1,018
1954	96	3,572	216	1,353
1955	96	3,589	182	1,819
1956	104	3,501	184	1,932
1957	104	3,595	193	1,835
1958	113	3,515	200	1,700
1959	115	3,497	213	1,550
1960	116	3,435	218	1,535
1961	122	3,135	222	1,492
1962	116	3,247	233	1,380
1963	119	3,017	225	1,476
1964	117	3,035	248	1,271
1965	117	2,771	237	1,298
1966	106	2,960	241	1,213
1967	104	2,955	249	1,141
1968	106	2,871	239	1,160
1969	118	2,759	257	1,134
1970	118	2,791	298	969
1971	127	2,469	306	874
1972	125	2,257	333	689
1973	123	2,096	335	657
1974	124	2,113	356	607
1975	137	1,858	360	582
1976	138	1,870	384	534
1977	133	2,011	377	562
1978	132	1,983	416	488
1979	129	2,073	364	622
1980	126	2,201	364	651
1981	123	2,209	413	531
1982	123	2,205	443	485
1983	138	1,917	513	371
1984	124	2,161	534	361
1985	142	2,001	610	310
1986	145	1,934	644	286
1987	154	1,808	746	242
1988	156	1,779	710	265
1989	188	1,545	818	232
1990	213	1,447	954	197
1991	228	1,303
1992	255	1,127
1993	284	987
1994	297	917
1995	330	773
1996	343	720
1997	390	613
1998	403	606
1999	449	510
2000	472	498
2001	465	512
2002	517	437
2003	558	398
2004	552	409
Totals:		225,729		60,476

During the last 125 years, parents have used Lee as a boy's name about 78% of the time and less frequently (about 21% of the time) as a girl's name.

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