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Lesley
Rank in 2024
#4,058
Born in 2024
36
Peak year
1980 · #269
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 36 girls were named Lesley, about 1 in every 44,811.
- It peaked in 1980 with 928 babies, ranked #269.
- It first shows up in the records in 1893.
- 34,272 girls have been named Lesley since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Lesley per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 159 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 780 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 5,582 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen X: 12,207 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Millennials: 8,112 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,651 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 776 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).
- A female given name transferred from the surname, used since the 18th century. Popular in the U.K. in the mid-20th century.
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Lesley, CC BY-SA 4.0.