Dee

• IPA^(key): /diː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

Dee

1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 39:

     And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]

3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
5. A female given name, short for names beginning with D.
   • 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:

     His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.

6. A surname of multiple origins.

• Bangor-on-Dee
• Deeside
• Miller of Dee

• Ardee (Ireland)

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.

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Dee f

1. a female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century

• Dy, Lee, Li

From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L-⟩ changed to ⟨D-⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Philippine Hokkien.[1]

• IPA^(key): /di/, [dɪ]

Dee

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Min Nan, most notably borne by:
   • Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282^nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.

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• Tee
• Wee
• Yee