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Leslie
Pronounced /ˈlɛzli/
Rank in 2024
#3,008
Born in 2024
41
Peak year
1952 · #125
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:495 in 2024 (#603)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 41 boys were named Leslie, about 1 in every 41,837.
- It peaked in 1952 with 2,359 babies, ranked #125.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 112,958 boys 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.
- 1.5Greatest1901–27
- 1.2Silent1928–45
- 1.0Boomers1946–64
- 0.5Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 25,312 babies, 1.51 per 1,000. Silent: 25,405 babies, 1.23 per 1,000. Boomers: 38,196 babies, 1.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 13,476 babies, 0.50 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,916 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,519 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 504 babies, 0.02 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.