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Leslie

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Scottish and English name

Transferred use of a surname derived from the lands of Lesslyn in Aberdeenshire

Gaelic leas cuilinn = 'garden of hollies' [1] [2] [3] [4]

Related Names

Lesley ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Leslie ♀/♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Leslie
Genitive: Leslies
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Leslie
Genitive: Leslien
Partitive: Leslietä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Leslie
Genitive: Leslies
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Leslie
Genitive: Leslies

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
216 462 119 164 97 298
Denmark Denmark[6]
172
n.a.
 58
n.a.
 114
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 197
n.a.
 66
n.a.
 131
Iceland Iceland[8]
4 10
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
111
n.a.
 75
n.a.
 36
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Leslie.


References

  1. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
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