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Leslie vs Maggie - What's the difference?

leslie | maggie |

As a proper noun leslie

is .

As a noun maggie is

one of several kinds of bird in the family corvidae, especially pica pica .

leslie

English

Alternative forms

* Lesley

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • derived from the surname.
  • , of mostly American usage.
  • * 2010 (Kate Atkinson), Started Early, took My Dog , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385608022, page 19:
    • 'Leslie' with an "ie",' she had to tell everyone in England because they spelt it with a 'y'. 'Really?' Dominic's mother said, as if ' Leslie herself was a spelling mistake.

    Usage notes

    * The male name was popular in the U.K. during the first half of the 20th century. * The female given name is usually spelled Lesley in the U.K.

    maggie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1986 , The Lost Language of Cranes , Houghton Mifflin (1997), ISBN 0395877334, page 127:
    • Maggie'. Never in her life had she heard her mother called ' Maggie . It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.
  • * 2004 , Jigs & Reels , Doubleday, ISBN 0385606427, page 81:
    • I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie ?no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years?
  • , former British prime minister