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Lei Ranking

the United States, the name Lei is the 14,849th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Lei migration to the United States +



Lei Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Hans Henrig Lei, who landed in New York in 1709 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Lei (post 1700) +

  • Steven Lei, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 2004
  • Lei S. Holbrook, American politician, Member of New York State Assembly from Onondaga County 3rd District, 1858 3
  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 11) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html

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