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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : variant spelling of Li 4. In Norway this is the most frequent spelling.
  • Dutch (de Lie) : from a short form of the saint’s name Odilia, the Latin form of a Germanic name Odela, from ōthala ‘paternal inheritance or possession’.
  • Variant of Korean Li.

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