Leslie derived from the name of Clan Leslie. The name originates from a placename in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, perhaps an anglicisation of the Gaelic ‘leas celyn’ for ‘holly-garden’.
Leslie is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
The name Leslie is not currently one of the fashionable names trending in the top 10 rankings, but it is still popular and common. Recently, it has consistently ranked among the top 1,000 most popular first names in the United States. It is currently #803 in the SmartGenius ranking.
Leslie derived from the name of Clan Leslie. The name originates from a placename in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, perhaps an anglicisation of the Gaelic ‘leas celyn’ for ‘holly-garden’.
In the US,... Leslie was usually given to boys before 1950, and mostly to girls after that.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Leslie annualy. This means that there have been children named Leslie who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Leslie have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Leslie even more than any other time: in 1969, it holds its present record of #101 in the ranking of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leslie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Leslie has never been ranked higher than #101. In 2022, it rivaled the 1,204 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 450 children named Leslie were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Leslie were born, there have been 2,698 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is quite common as an initial letter for first names. To be precise, 5.5% of all given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.
With six letters, the name Leslie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.5% of all first names start with an L, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Leslie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Leslie, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Sun
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leslie
Leslie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
S
L
I
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
E
S
L
I
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Leslie sounds like this:
