Lesli

Where Lesli comes from

Lesli hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #2,739 among girls, 13 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1953
    Lesli Linka Glatter born
    American film director
  3. 1965
    Lesli Kay born
    American actress
  4. 1967
    Peak, #833
    145 babies named Lesli — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,798.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lesli Linka Glatter · American film director, born 1953
  • Lesli Kay · American actress, born 1965
  • Lesli Margherita · American actress, born 1973
  • Lesli Brea · Dominican Republic baseball player, born 1973
  • Lesli Myrthil · Swedish basketball player, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.