Lesslie: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Lesslie is a familiar spelling of the Scottish name Leslie. Taken at its root, Lesslie points to “From Leslie in Aberdeenshire”. The extra “s” in Lesslie is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Lesley.

Lesslie ranked 72,771 in the 2010 US Census, with 267 people answering to the name. That puts it among the top 100,000 US surnames.

Arms linked to Leslie and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Lesslie surname pack.