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Name Lesley

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From Old Irish words for garden and holly

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About the name Lesley in particular

Gender:	male
Languages of use:	English
Topics:	Male and female
Popularity:	no rank in any popularity list in this database
Similarly written:	Lesley, Lesly, Wesley, Ansley, Bexley, Ensley, Eslem, Henley, Keeley, Kelley Details

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About Leslie/Leslie, the group of names with the same origin as Lesley

Language of origin:	Old Irish
Info about origin, male:	from a Scottish family name deriving from a place name, problably the name of the city Lesslyn in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
	the Gaelic name of the city might mean garden of hollies
Words:	leas = the garden Old Irish
	cuileann = the holly Old Irish
Topics:	Family name, Geographic name
Variants' top ranks:	15:Leslie England+Wales 1924, 19:Lesley England+Wales 1954, 70:Leslie USA 1980-1989, 364:Lesly USA 2003
Somehow related to:	Leslie/Leslie, Leslie/Leslie
Name variants:	Lesley, Leslie, Lesly, Lesley, Leslie Sortable list Details