| Origin: | From Old Irish words for garden and holly | Tools: Add to favorites   Generate: Twitter-able text
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| Name info: About the name Lesley in particular |  | 
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| Group info: 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 | 
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| Popularity: Popularity lists that contain the name Lesley | Sort by Rank   Sort by Year| Series | Graph | Rankings | 
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 | England+Wales decades | Graph | 1974 97,  1964 46,  1954 19,  1944 55 |  | USA decades | Graph | 1990-1999 662,  1980-1989 345 |  | USA yearly | Graph | 2007 814,  2006 745,  2005 714,  2004 610,  2003 603,  2002 562,  2001 523,  2000 429,  1999 408,  1998 394,  1997 415,  1996 431,  1995 740,  1994 721,  1993 688 | 
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