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From where does the practice of appending "-Lee" to female names come from?
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There are some traditional names like "Mary-Lee" where "-Lee" is suffixed to a regular female name, almost as a separate word. From what google tells me, the suffix itself has something to do with the old english word for "field" or "pasture", and might have gained some popularity as a first name in its own right due to Robert E. Lee, but that doesn't explain the construction of "female name" "-Lee" in its own right as such a common thing.
Why did this construction become popular, and why for women?
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