Lëslie
given name · Latin script
Lëslie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 290,492 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In Guatemala it is the 73rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).
- USUnited States1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 1.4K
- ECEcuador1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 392 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
290,492 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Leslie in US United States, GT Guatemala.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lëslie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 290,492 | 1 in 1.1K | 238K | Leslie | 392 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,111 | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | — | 35 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,453 | 1 in 146K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,062 | 1 in 4.8K | 1.1K | — | 49 |
| GY Guyana | — | 543 | 1 in 1.4K | 543 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 533 | 1 in 19K | 533 | — | 11 |
| GT Guatemala | #73 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Leslie | 49 |
290,492 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lëslie mean, and where does it come from?
- From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Lëslie?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 290 thousand people named Lëslie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled leslie. After it come Ecuador, Brazil, Costa Rica and Guyana; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lëslie most common?
- Lëslie is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lëslie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 290,492 people named Lëslie in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Lëslie compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Lëslie is the 73rd most common given name of 22,774 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%ABslieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lëslie” — ranked 179th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.