# Lie (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A Norwegian surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,083 |
| US rank (2010) | 23,472 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 285,084 people |
| Change since 2000 | +31% (827 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Norwegian Lie.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lie in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 15% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 72% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 3.5% |
| Two or more races | 6.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lie in Norway and Belgium.

## People named Lie

- Trygve Lie, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1896–1968)
- Lotte Lie, Belgian-Norwegian biathlete

## Similar surnames

Li, Liu, Lieu, Liew, Lee, Le, Lowe, Lu, Law, Ly, Lau, Lai.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.