All around the world, L (L 
, Л 
, Л. 
) is a widespread epicene forename. The first name L is characteristic of the United Kingdom, where it is quite a common epicene name, Australia, where it is quite a common mostly feminine, but seldom boy's name, and Indonesia, where it is quite a common gender-neutral name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Likewise, L is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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| L | Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Taiwan, China |
| Л | Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, China, Ukraine |
| Л. | Serbia, Russia, Belarus, China, Ukraine |
| エル | Japan |
L is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: L , the fictional character from Death Note; Benjamin L. Willard , the fictional character in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now and L , the musical character in the musical Death Note: The Musical.
| louis françois gabriel joseph mouton de harchies politician, FR (b. 1760) |
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lammert swart Dutch East Indies Army general, NL (b. 1847) |
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luutzen de vries politician (1849-1928), NL (b. 1849) |
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louis denison taylor Canadian mayor (1857-1946), CA (b. 1857) |
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leolyn dana wilgress Canadian diplomat, CA (b. 1892) |
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| lassa oppenheim German legal scholar, DE (b. 1858) |
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lionel thomas caswall rolt English historian and biographer, GB (b. 1910) |
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| laura knapek singer, composer, pianist and music teacher, CZ (b. 1872) |
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| ludwig hofbauer Austrian internist and university teacher, AT (b. 1873) |
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hunter lovins American academic, US (b. 1950) |
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| l samaranayake researcher (b. 1900) |
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| l marsland gander journalist (b. 1902) |
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l nageswara rao Judge of Supreme Court of India, IN (b. 1957) |
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| lenin gilberto guardia basso CL (b. 1901) |
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lakshminarayanan mahadevan Indian American mathematician, IN (b. 1965) |
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