Is Leslie a male or female name?
Leslie is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 54% and male usage in Ireland at 73%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 53%
- Sample size
- 26,765
- Confidence
- high
Leslie by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 54% | 26,446 | ssa |
| France FR | female | 99% | 15,610 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 73% | 1,832 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | male | 73% | 697 | cso |
| England and Wales GB | male | 94% | 319 | ons |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 299 | ine |
Attested in 12 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · NZ · SE · US
Look up Leslie with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api?name=Leslie&country=US" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ng_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.08. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Leslie
Is Leslie a male or female name?
Leslie is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 54% and male usage in Ireland at 73%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Leslie change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Leslie identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.