Origin: | From Old Irish words for garden and holly | Tools: Add to favorites Generate: Twitter-able text SMS text Compare to: Behind the Name Search with: Wikipedia NNDB IMDb Google |
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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 | Series | Graph | Rankings |
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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