Lesly

Where Lesly comes from

Lesly hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1936
    First appearance
    #4,181 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1983
    Lesly Malouda born
    French Guianese football player
  4. 1985
    Lesly Fellinga born
    Haitian association football player
  5. 2003
    Peak, #364
    839 babies named Lesly — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #693.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lesly Malouda · French Guianese football player, born 1983
  • Lesly Fellinga · Haitian association football player, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.