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Updated January 23, 2020

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Chinese : Flower bud

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Irish : The narrows; a place where cattle graze; a wood; a church
  • Scottish : From a narrow strait; the name of a Scottish region
  • Chinese : Thunder

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Lei

Family name origins & meanings

  • Chinese : said to be from a modified form of the name of Lei Zu, principal wife of the legendary emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 bc) and the first woman to be designated empress.
  • Chinese : Cantonese variant of Li 1.
  • Dutch : nickname for a lazy person, from Middle Dutch lei ‘lazy’.

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