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 Leslie in particular | Gender: | male |
Languages of use: | German, English |
Topics: | Male and female |
US 2021 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 |
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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