Meaning and history
From a Scottish surname derived from a place in Aberdeenshire, probably from Gaelic leas celyn meaning “garden of holly,” Leslie has been used as a given name since the 19th century. In the United States, it became more common as a feminine name after the 1940s.
20062006: 3,036 births, rank #108
2007: 2,690 births, rank #127
2008: 2,326 births, rank #147
2009: 1,983 births, rank #160
2010: 1,565 births, rank #199
20112011: 1,286 births, rank #246
2012: 1,226 births, rank #266
2013: 1,111 births, rank #287
2014: 1,000 births, rank #338
2015: 880 births, rank #371
20162016: 807 births, rank #413
2017: 704 births, rank #449
2018: 601 births, rank #521
2019: 572 births, rank #536
2020: 488 births, rank #595
20212021: 477 births, rank #623
2022: 453 births, rank #651
2023: 440 births, rank #670
2024: 496 births, rank #605
20252025: 393 births, rank #712
Leslie moved from #606 to #712 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1957, with 6,103 births.