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Lee looks more masculine to me, perhaps because until very recently surnames tended to become male first names, not female. My experience bears that out: I was at school with three sisters whose ln was Lee, and another girl whose given names were Mabel Leigh but who went by Leigh.

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I'd expect Anna Lee to be, fn Anna, ln Lee, and Anna Leigh to have Anna as her fn, Leigh as her mn and something else, like Evans, as her ln.

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I think I remember reading somewhere once that in the UK Lee was predominantly male and Leigh was predominantly female, but that in the USA it was the other way around. No idea if that's correct.