# Slee (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 763 |
| US rank (2010) | 30,570 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 404,647 people |
| Change since 2000 | -3.8% (793 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, variant of Sly. * Also as an English surname, from the archaic Old English slēa (“grassy slope”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Schlee.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Slee 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) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.9% |

## Similar surnames

Seeley, Sallee, Sale, Sealey, Saelee, Solé, Selle, Seel, Sule, Selley, Sheley, Seelye.

## 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.