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lai Name Meaning and History

  1. Chinese : from the name of a state called Lai (in present-day Henan province), which existed during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). Descendants of the ruling class of this state adopted its name as their surname.
  2. Chinese : Cantonese variant of Li 2.
  3. Vietnamese: unexplained.
  4. Polish: dialect variant of the personal name Lew ‘lion’ (see Lew 2).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The lai name in History

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Distribution of lai Families in the US in 1920
Number of lai families
 31-60
 11-30		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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