| Origin: | From Old Irish words for garden and holly | Tools: Add to favorites Generate:
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| Name info: About the name Leslie in particular | | Gender: | male |
| Languages of use: | German, English |
| Topics: | Male and female |
| US 2024 rank: | not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below |
| Similarly written: | Leslie, Bessie, Elie, Ellie, Ésaïe, Jessie, Jessie, Jessie, Kellie, Lalie Details |
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| Group info: About Leslie/Leslie, the group of names with the same origin as Leslie | | 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 Leslie | | Series | Graph | Rankings |
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| England+Wales decades | Graph | 1964 76, 1954 42, 1944 35, 1934 31, 1924 15, 1914 17, 1904 24 |
| USA decades | Graph | 1990-1999 732, 1980-1989 446, 1960-1969 198 |
| USA yearly | Graph | 1997 877, 1996 820, 1995 784, 1994 727, 1993 737 |
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