Lees Family History
Lees Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English
lees ‘fields’, ‘arable land’, plural of lee (see
Lee), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’
(Old English l?s).English: habitational name from
Leece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from Old
English leas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural of
leah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably named
with a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall’, ‘court’, ‘the principal
house in a district’.English: variant spelling of
Leece 1.Scottish: reduced form of Gillies.Scottish and Irish: reduced and altered form of McLeish.Dutch: variant of Leys.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lees Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lees families
 130 - 258  44 - 129 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lees families
|
2,368 - 4,734 790 - 2,367 |
1 - 789 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lees families
|
278 - 553 93 - 277 |
1 - 92 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lees Family Origin
Lees Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Lees
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Lees Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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