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| Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| The Name Lee |
Yup I am a Lee. Named for one of my Mom's 9 brothers, Noble Lee. My grandmother called her children by their first name and middle name so when you say Noble Lee it sounds more like your saying Noblee. Say it out loud and you will find that it is very hard to pronounce both names seperately. So Noble Lee was the first to have the name Lee in our family. He named his first born Timothy Lee, another Uncle named his first born Mickey Lee, an Aunt named her first born Tony Lee and I was named Gregory Lee, also first born of my Mom and of course I broked the mold. lol So that gives us
1) Noble Lee
2) Timothy Lee
3) Mickey Lee
4) Tony Lee
5) Gregory Lee
The name Lee has spilled over into the third generation now. Mickey Lee named both his sons with Lee as their middle name. His explanation for this was cause he didn't want one to get jealous of the other cause one had their Dad's name. GEESH No comment on that. So Joshua Lee and Matthew Lee has come into the family. Timothy Lee named his first born son Jeremy Lee. Tony Lee named his first born Joshua Lee. One of my other cousins Rick Allen named his son Jeremy Lee.
6) Joshua Lee
7) Matthew Lee
8) Jeremy Lee
9) Joshua Lee (not to be confused with the other Joshua Lee)
10) Jeremy Lee (not to be confused with the other Jeremy Lee)
That's a lot of Lee's in one family. But where did the simple name of Lee come from? What does it mean? Aww but I did some research of this, and it's amazing as to what I found. Ok something I didn't know before.
The name Lee is a female name Orgin: Old English, Gaelic, Chinese. Meaning: Glade; poet; plum. Okay so basically I have a female name being a poet or a plum. ROFL On further searching I found the following.
1: English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of arable land, Middle English lea, lee (from Old English lea, dative case — originally used after a preposition — of leah wood, clearing, a term with cognates in many European languages.) 2: English: habitation name from any of the many places names with Old English leah wood, clearing, as for example Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire. 3: Irish: anglicized form of Erse Ó Laoidheach descendant of Laoidheach, a personal name derived from laoidh poem, song (originally a byname for a poet).
Variant (of 1 and 2): Lea, Lees, Leigh, Ley; Lay, Laye, Lye (from the later Old English dative form, preserved in Middle English as l(e)ye. cf. Lye Worcestershire). (of 1 only): Atherlee (with fused preposition and article); Atlay, Atlee, Atley, Attle, Attlee (with fused preposition); Layman, Leyman, Lyman. (of 3): O'Lee, O'Leye, O'Lie, O'Loye, O'Lye.
Lee or variants was the 49th most common name in England and Wales according to a survey taken by H.M.Treasury in 1944, with a relative frequency of 0.19%.
And finally I found this one.
Definition: 1) The surname LEA, including the common alternate spelling LEE,was originally given to a person who lived in or near a "laye," Middle English meaning 'clearing in the woods.' 2) Possibly a modern form of the ancient Irish name "O'Liathain.". 3) LEE means "plum tree" in Chinese.
Surname Origin: English, Irish, Chinese
Alternate Surname Spellings: LEA, LEIGH
So basically Lee means a female from a meadow growing plum trees while writing poetry. |
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So, how's the plum tree growing and poetry writing going?
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So, how's the plum tree growing and poetry writing going?