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Leslie
Pronounced /ˈlɛzli/
Rank in 2024
#603
Born in 2024
495
Peak year
1957 · #77
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:41 in 2024 (#3,008)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 495 girls were named Leslie, about 1 in every 3,259.
- It peaked in 1957 with 6,103 babies, ranked #77.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 270,029 girls have been named Leslie since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Leslie per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 2.2Boomers1946–64
- 3.0Gen X1965–80
- 1.8Millennials1981–96
- 1.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,116 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Silent: 7,287 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Boomers: 80,410 babies, 2.25 per 1,000. Gen X: 75,925 babies, 2.97 per 1,000. Millennials: 51,483 babies, 1.82 per 1,000. Gen Z: 44,369 babies, 1.53 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 8,026 babies, 0.40 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈlɛzli/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Leslie, CC BY-SA 4.0.