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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish: Gray fortress
  2. Scottish: Dweller in the gray castle
  3. Old English: Small meadow
  4. Scottish: Low meadow

First name variations: Lesle, Lesli, Lesly, Leslye, Lezlie, Lesley, Lesley, Lesly, Les, Lee, Les, Leslea, Lesley, Lesly, Lezly

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish: habitational name from a barony in Aberdeenshire, which is first recorded c.1180 in the form Lesslyn, of obscure origin.
  2. English: possibly from a double diminutive of the personal name Lece (see Leece), thus Lecelin.

Famous people who gave their babies this name: Michael Landon, William Shatner

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