Lei (surname)

Lei
Pronunciation	Léi (Mandarin) Lûi (Hokkien)
Language(s)	Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean
Origin
Language(s)	Chinese
Word/Name	China
Meaning	Thunder
Other names
Variant(s)	Lei (Mandarin) Lui, Leoi, Loi (Cantonese) Louie, Louis (Taishanese) Lui (Hokkien, Teochew) Lūi (Gan) No, Ro (Korean) Lôi (Vietnamese)

Lei is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (Léi).

Additionally, the very common Chinese surname Li () is sometimes romanized as "Lei", particularly among the Macanese.

雷 is also romanized as Lui in Hokkien and Teochew, Lui or Loi in Cantonese; Louie or Louis in Taishanese; Lūi in Gan.

It is rendered as Lôi in Vietnamese; Roe () or () in Korean; and Rai in Japanese.

雷 is the 79th-most-common surname in mainland China but not included among the 100 most common surnames on Taiwan.

In the United States, Lei is an uncommon surname, ranking 14,849th during the 1990 census and 6,583rd during the year 2000 census. In order, "Roe", "Louis", "Noe", "Louie", and "Lui" were all more common than the pinyin name; Loi and Rai were quite uncommon; and Leoi was held by fewer than 100 US residents and left unlisted by the Census Bureau.

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