Leslie
24,015 people in the United States were counted with the surname Leslie in the 2020 census, making it the 1,446th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,400.
By the numbers
- People
- 24,015
- Rank
- 1,446th
- How common
- 1 in 12,400
- Per 100,000
- 8.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Leslie described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Leslie
- Rose Leslie (born 1987)Scottish actress
- Lisa Leslie (born 1972)American basketball player
- Joan Leslie (1925–2015)American actress
- John Leslie (1766–1832)British mathematician and physicist
- John Leslie (1945–2010)American pornographic actor and film director
- Conor Leslie (born 1991)American actress
- Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1580–1661)Scottish soldier in Dutch, Swedish and Scottish service
- Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859)British painter
People named Leslie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Leslie
Also a first name
Leslie has been given to 383,418 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1957. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.