first name
LEI
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,455 people named Lei, 90% reported their origin as Asian or Pacific Islander, 4.6% as White and 2% as Black. 53.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Lei peaked in 1960, when 25 babies got the name.
At least 683 babies have been given the name since 1937. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Lei by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #4,959. The largest share of babies named Lei, 35.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Either side of Lei
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lei, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Lei ranks #3,478 of 156,621, with 10,011 people. See Lei as a last name
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