I very much appreciate the receipt of a PM letting me know that "Lee" doesn't mean "poetic child" in Irish..

My source for that information is Sue Browder's "The New Age Baby Name Book". She credits the name to Irish Gaelic. That same book gave "plum" as th Chinese meaning of the female name "Lee". [??], and the old English meaning of "one who lives in a pasture meadow"

I have umpteen name books....Another book that I checked "Pamela A, Samuelson's Baby names Dor The New Century" also gives Irish Gaelic for one of the sources for the female name "Lee". That book gives "rhyming child" as the meaning for "Lee".

I trust information received from people from a culture much more than information from books. Although I found this name meaning in these two books, one editor could have copied erroneous information from the other.

Rather than check other books that I have or Internet websites, I'm curious whether others here can weigh in on this. Is "Lee" an Irish Gaelic female name, and if so what does it mean?

Also, are Irish and Irish Gaelic the same language?

Thank you.


Ms. Azizi