Lesli
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1967 · 145 births
- Debut · girls
- 13 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,799since 1946
Lesli over time
Rank among girls' names. Lesli has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 |
| 2011 | #2,725 | 64 |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 |
| 2009 | #2,190 | 90 |
| 2008 | #1,642 | 137 |
| 2007 | #1,645 | 135 |
| 2006 | #1,398 | 162 |
| 2005 | #1,406 | 152 |
| 2004 | #1,380 | 151 |
| 2003 | #1,454 | 135 |
| 2002 | #1,323 | 147 |
| 2001 | #1,218 | 166 |
| 2000 | #1,310 | 145 |
| 1999 | #1,492 | 115 |
| 1998 | #1,921 | 79 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 |
| 1996 | #1,864 | 78 |
| 1995 | #2,282 | 58 |
| 1994 | #2,541 | 49 |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 |
| 1991 | #2,270 | 57 |
| 1990 | #2,437 | 50 |
| 1989 | #2,408 | 48 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 |
| 1987 | #2,065 | 53 |
| 1986 | #2,025 | 53 |
| 1985 | #1,997 | 54 |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 |
| 1983 | #1,798 | 59 |
| 1982 | #1,399 | 87 |
| 1981 | #1,406 | 87 |
| 1980 | #1,419 | 86 |
| 1979 | #1,496 | 79 |
| 1978 | #1,434 | 80 |
| 1977 | #1,380 | 81 |
| 1976 | #1,273 | 87 |
| 1975 | #1,055 | 112 |
| 1974 | #1,023 | 117 |
| 1973 | #1,120 | 100 |
| 1972 | #1,051 | 110 |
| 1971 | #1,021 | 121 |
| 1970 | #1,083 | 110 |
| 1969 | #929 | 131 |
| 1968 | #920 | 126 |
| 1967 | #833 | 145 |
| 1966 | #848 | 139 |
| 1965 | #894 | 126 |
| 1964 | #982 | 117 |
| 1963 | #870 | 145 |
| 1962 | #1,158 | 89 |
| 1961 | #1,136 | 93 |
| 1960 | #1,227 | 79 |
| 1959 | #1,203 | 79 |
| 1958 | #1,120 | 89 |
| 1957 | #1,177 | 80 |
| 1956 | #1,413 | 55 |
| 1955 | #1,733 | 36 |
| 1954 | #1,677 | 37 |
| 1953 | #1,460 | 45 |
| 1952 | #2,074 | 24 |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 |
| 1950 | #2,185 | 20 |
| 1949 | #2,410 | 17 |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lesli! It came in at #2,739, and was given to 13 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1948, when fewer than 13 girls a year got the name.
Where Lesli is popular in 1946
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#918 · 1 in 26,506
Best ever in a state: #236 in District of Columbia, 2004.
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See more about Lesli
- 2,270 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #7,885)
- 1,256 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #7,885)
- 2,597 spots since 2015 (#5,288 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 288 spots in 1963 (#1,158 → #870)
- Biggest drop: 154 spots in 1970 (#929 → #1,083)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1967 at #833 (145 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1963–1969
- Highest: 1 in 10,847 girls born in 2001 were named Lesli (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #833 in 1967, was only 1 in 11,386 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.5% of all girls named Lesli (1,420) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 50 | #2,410 (1949) | #3,023 |
| 1950s | 480 | #1,120 (1958) | #1,674 |
| 1960s | 1,190 | #833 (1967) | #980 |
| 1970s | 997 | #1,021 (1971) | #1,194 |
| 1980s | 623 | #1,399 (1982) | #1,890 |
| 1990s | 640 | #1,492 (1999) | #2,224 |
| 2000s | 1,420 | #1,218 (2001) | #1,497 |
| 2010s | 305 | #2,451 (2010) | #5,955 |
| 2020s | 94 | #5,615 (2024) | #7,291 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lesli in 1946
Top girls' names in 1946
More about 1946
girls
1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 120,870 of them was named Lesli, which outranked 51.8% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,597Wesley14
- #2,597Willadean14
- #2,597Zadie14
- #2,739Lesli13
- #2,739Acquanetta13
- #2,739Agustina13
- #2,739Alejandra13
- #2,880Adair12
- #2,880Adrianna12
- #2,880Alayne12
Tied with 140 names at #2,739; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.