Back لی (نام خانوادگی کره‌ای) Persian Lee (nom de famille) French I (koreai név) Hungarian Lee (nama keluarga Korea) ID Lee (cognome) Italian 李 (朝鮮人の姓) Japanese 이 (성씨) Korean I (uzvārds) Latvian/Lettish Lee (familienavn) NB Lee (nome coreano) Portuguese

Lee (Korean surname)

For the Chinese surname from which this name is derived, see Li (surname 李). For the English surname, see Lee (English surname). For the list of people with this surname, see List of people with the Korean family name Lee.
Lee
Pronunciation[iː] or [ɾiː]
Language(s)Korean
Origin
Language(s)Korean
Word/nameKorean
Meaning
  • 이 or 리[a]
    • 李: plum
  • 이 only
    • 異: different
    • 伊: that
Region of originKorean peninsula
Other names
Variant form(s)Ee, I, Yi, Ri, Rhee, Rhie, Reeh
See alsoLi, Lý
Lee
Hangul
이 (리)[a]
Hanja
Revised RomanizationI (Ri)
McCune–ReischauerI (Ri)
Percentage of family names based on the 2000 South Korean Census
  Kim, Gim
  Lee, I, Yi, Ri, Rhee, Reeh
  Park, Bak, Bahk, Pak
  Choi, Choe
  Jung, Jeong, Chung, Cheong

Lee, I, or Yi (이) is the second-most-common surname in Korea, behind Kim (김). As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were 7,306,828 people by this name in South Korea or 14.7% of the population.[1]

Historically, 李 was officially written as Ni (니)[2] in Korea. The spelling officially changed to I (이) in 1933 when the initial sound rule (두음 법칙) was established. In North Korea, it is romanized as Ri (리) because there is no distinction between the alveolar liquids /l/ and /r/ in modern Korean.


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  1. ^ "2015년 인구주택총조사 전수집계결과 보도자료" [Results of the 2015 Census of Population and Housing survey]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  2. ^ For example, F. C. Ridel's Grammaire Coréenne published in 1881. https://imgur.com/oSxewU0 Also, Independence Newspaper(獨立新聞), the nation's first Korean-only newspaper in 1896. https://imgur.com/7bruwF7

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