Leslie

Meaning: Garden of hollies
Origin: Scottish surname

Girl's name · #712 in the US (2025) · Retro

Popularity over time

Leslie reached its best rank, #56, in 1981 and ranked #712 in 2025. Roughly 270,000 girls have been named Leslie since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 32 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#210 in Mexico (2024) · #214 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,218 in Canada (2025) · #1,388 in France (2025) · #2,203 in Sweden (2025) · #2,579 in Italy (2024) · #2,846 in Austria (2025) · #1,231 in Belgium (2015) · #297 in Puerto Rico (2008) · #4,798 in England & Wales (2005) · #606 in Ireland (2001) · #408 in Scotland (1983) and 1 more.

Famous Leslies

Leslie Caron — French and American actress and dancer (born 1931)
Leslie Mann — American actress (born 1972)
Leslie Bibb — American actress (born 1973)
Leslie Jones — American comedian and actress (born 1967)
Leslie Uggams — American actress and singer (born 1943)

In stories & tradition

Leslie Winkle — The Big Bang Theory (TV series)
Leslie Thompkins — Fictional character in the DC comics universe; surrogate figure to Bruce Wayne
Leslie Knope — Fictional character from Parks and Recreation

What Leslies become

Among 1,814 notable people named Leslie:

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Lesly (#1448), Leslie would rank around #558 with about 540 births last year — the newborns split about 73/27 between Leslie and Lesly.

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