Lesleigh

Girls' name

Variant of Leslie

Lesleigh has been given to 487 babies in the U.S. since 1950. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Lesleigh, 2019

1 in 579,000

Lesleigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lesleigh: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Leslie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lesleigh means

Lesleigh is a variant of Leslie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lesleigh is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɛz.li/ and /ˈlɛs.li/ for Lesleigh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lesleigh → Leslie. The family’s meaning is “garden of hollies”, recorded in English with the source elements cuileann.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leslie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 487 girls were recorded with the name Lesleigh between 1950 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1971; its best national rank was #3,729 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lesleigh?

Lesleigh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 579,000; 6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only: 1 in 280,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 401,129 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Lesleigh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lesleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lesleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lesleigh was born before 1987 — so the typical Lesleigh is around 38 today.

Median birth year: 1987; About 38 years old
Biggest decade: 1980s; 25.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 31.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 487; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1980s — 25.1% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Lesleigh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1971 (17)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,729; 1971

Spellings of Lesleigh

Lesleigh is not the most common spelling — Kenleigh is, with 23.7% against Lesleigh's 5.1%.

Kenleigh23.7%2,255
Presleigh22.3%2,123
Ansleigh16.4%1,561
Kensleigh10.0%952
Keleigh8.4%799
Lynleigh7.2%688
Elleigh6.9%659
Lesleigh5.1%487

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Lesleigh around the world

Where Lesleigh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1946–1981
#616
in 1981

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lesleigh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,729; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 17 that year
First recorded: 1950
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 487
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Lesleigh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Braleigh Renleigh Keeleigh Henleigh Tayleigh Bexleigh Breleigh Wesleigh Jaeleigh Rhyleigh Kalleigh Skyleigh Lynleigh Tinleigh Evaleigh Maeleigh Mayleigh Rynleigh Zayleigh Raileigh Tenleigh Brileigh Hazleigh Bradleigh

Sibling names for Lesleigh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Trena Charisse Darcie Michell Tressa Kerrie Nicola Tisha

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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