Leslee
Feminine · “garden of hollies”
Leslee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 4,905 girls against 96 boys since 1880.
Leslie is a place in Aberdeenshire, and the family who took its name became one of the significant houses of Scotland. The double e in this spelling is the third way English has found to end the name — after -ie and -ey — and it is the one that leaves no doubt about the final sound.
How old is the name Leslee?
Leslee first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Leslee alive today was born around 1970, making them about 55 years old. About 4,400 people named Leslee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Leslee most popular?
Leslee peaked in 1946, reaching #825 nationally. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Lesslyn to Leslee
The story of Leslee
Leslie moved from Scottish place to surname to given name and then, as a great many surname-names do, from boys to girls — and in Britain the two spellings sorted themselves, with Leslie going to men and Lesley to women. America never adopted that convention and uses both for both, which is why an American Leslie is usually a woman and a British one is usually a man. The double e is a further American addition and does not exist in British use at all.
Meaningscholars disagree
garden of hollies
The Aberdeenshire place appears in early records as Lesslyn, and the usual reading joins a Gaelic word for a garden or enclosure with one for holly — so a holly enclosure. That derivation is traditional and not firmly demonstrated; Scottish place names of this age often resist. What is documented is the family: the Leslies held land there from the twelfth century and the surname is theirs.
How the name formed
- Lesslyn
- Leslie
- Leslee
Pronouncing Leslee
LESS-lee
LESS-lee, two syllables, stress at the front. Leslie, Lesley and Leslee are said identically; the ending is the only difference among the three and it is invisible in speech.
Nicknames for Leslee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1922
- Most girls named
- 1957126 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #825reached in 1946
- Change vs 2022
- −41.7%7 in 2024, from 12
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Leslees among us
people named Leslee are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Leslee sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The double e removes any doubt about the ending, which -ie and -ey both leave open.
- There is a documented Scottish place and family behind it.
- It works for either child, which the record confirms.
- Leslie and Lesley are both standard and this will be rewritten as one of them.
- The name reads as a woman's in America and a man's in Britain, which is a real complication for a family that moves.
- It is strongly associated with the middle of the last century in American use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Leslees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,400 people named Leslee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Leslee in 2025?
- Leslee is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Leslee with classmates?
- Leslee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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