Lesleigh
Lesleigh Harvey is an Australian former swimmer. She competed in three events at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She comes from Townsville in Queensland.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Lesleigh
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Lesleigh Harvey is an Australian former swimmer. She competed in three events at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She comes from Townsville in Queensland.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Lesleigh
Lesleigh first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1950, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1971: 17 births, good for #3,652 nationwide. About 25% of every Lesleigh on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Lesleigh last appeared in the published SSA data in 2019, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 487 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Lesleigh
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About the name Lesleigh
Lesleigh is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1950 and has accumulated 487 births in the dataset. Lesleigh's peak popularity came in 1971 when it ranked #3,652. Use the chart and map above to compare Lesleigh's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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