Lesley-Ann
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lesley-Ann is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 174K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.4M
- JMJamaica≈1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
≈510 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lesleyann in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lesley-Ann 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Lesley-Ann | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 174K | 3 | Lesley-Ann | 87 |
| US United States | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 9 | Lesleyann | 81 |
| AU Australia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 388K | 1 | Lesley-Ann | 33 |
| NL Netherlands | 37 | 1 in 467K | 37 | Lesley-Ann | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Lesley-Ann | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Lesley-Ann | 7 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 2 |
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: NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lesley-Ann Jonesb. 1956GBnot in their usual nameBritish non-fiction writer
- Lesley-Ann Skeeteb. 1967GBnot in their usual nameEnglish female hurdler
- Lesley-Ann Poppeb. 1979BEnot in their usual nameBelgian model
- Lesley-Ann Brandtb. 1981ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African-American actress (born 1981)
- Lesley-Ann Dupigny-GirouxTTnot in their usual nameclimatologist
- Lesley-Ann GiddingsUSnot in their usual nameresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-1089-1276
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lesley-Ann a male or female name?
- Lesley-Ann is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lesley-Ann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 510 people named Lesley-Ann in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Lesley-Ann.
- How common is the name Lesley-Ann?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 37 people named Lesley-Ann, about 1 in 467 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lesley-Ann?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lesley-annThe 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, “Lesley-Ann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.