How to write “Lee or Leigh” in Korean

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What Korean friends call you

• 리야 ri-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 리 씨 ri-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Lee

• 리 142 (100%)

Korean labels of 142 people named Lee on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.

Well-known people named Lee or Leigh, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Lee Marvin — 리 마빈
• Lee Van Cleef — 리 밴클리프
• Lee de Forest — 리 디포리스트
• Lee Grant — 리 그랜트

115,871 babies were named Lee in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 395th most common name.

Block by block

• 리 = ㄹ + ㅣ · 4 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes
  • ㅣ 이 (i) · 1 stroke

  Also in 리: Emily 에밀리 · Christopher 크리스토퍼 · William 윌리엄

More names: Jay 제이 · Tonya 토냐 · Hudson 허드슨 · Lucy 루시 · Dean 딘

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