Lesly

#1,443 for girls in 2025, 149 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls 96.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
2003 · 839 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
15,281
since 1936

Lesly over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Lesly has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201936peak #364, 2003girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,443149—
2024#1,099223—
2023#1,455153—
2022#1,304181—
2021#1,460147—
2020#1,334165—
2019#1,319173—
2018#1,229190—
2017#1,217197—
2016#1,257194—
2015#1,115230—
2014#966276—
2013#838314—
2012#757367#12,2745
2011#693404—
2010#581505—
2009#505598—
2008#451699—
2007#429766—
2006#418761—
2005#401783#6,22612
2004#407747#8,9277
2003#364839#7,8318
2002#406717#8,4567
2001#371802#10,5565
2000#389742#5,92011
1999#415672#5,65611
1998#491516#4,87313
1997#578401#7,2817
1996#671330#9,0155
1995#967195#5,9289
1994#1,125160#5,45210
1993#1,194145#5,36010
1992#1,434112#5,6609
1991#1,443110#4,23113
1990#1,67088#5,8238
1989#2,30451#3,44616
1988#2,13154#4,16211
1987#2,09852#3,33914
1986#2,62037#6,7215
1985#2,60137#4,05210
1984#2,19245#3,10714
1983#2,55235#3,63011
1982#1,99152#3,48212
1981#2,30543#2,89815
1980#2,86631#4,1349
1979#3,14726#3,81010
1978#3,51221#4,1578
1977#3,00226#3,8369
1976#3,09523#4,0128
1975#3,05223—
1974#3,31320#3,8378
1973#2,91423#3,01311
1972#4,79311#3,3449
1971#2,54229#3,3709
1970#2,77925#3,2829
1969#3,10219#3,5957
1968#2,36027#3,3657
1967#1,94736#3,9665
1966#1,76641#3,2497
1965#2,03133#3,5376
1964#2,04034#2,54611
1963#1,86739#2,67310
1962#1,70844#3,3057
1961#2,25028#3,3567
1960#2,09730#2,8719
1959#2,39523#3,9885
1958#2,50621—
1957#3,30913#3,5526
1956#2,62219—
1955#4,3768#2,7649
1954#3,01914—
1953#3,26912—
1952#3,7969#2,51410
1951#1,88527—
1950#3,23511#3,3296
1949#3,39310—
1948#3,8838—
1947#4,3457#3,7335
1946#3,21710—
1945#4,0256—
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1943#4,1966—
1942#3,4448—
1941#3,5597—
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1939#3,7826—
1938#4,3425—
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1936#4,1815—
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First appearance
1936

The first year at least five girls were named Lesly! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1936–1938, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Lesly is popular in 1936

No state had 5 or more girls named Lesly in 1936, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Lesly
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 344 spots since 2024 (#1,099 → #1,443)
  • 109 spots since 2020 (#1,334 → #1,443)
  • 328 spots since 2015 (#1,115 → #1,443)
  • Biggest jump: 296 spots in 1996 (#967 → #671)
  • Biggest drop: 149 spots in 2015 (#966 → #1,115)
Rise & fade · girls
67 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1936
  • Peaked 2003 at #364 (839 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 20 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1995–2014
Share of babies · girls
1 in 2,178
  • Highest: 1 in 2,178 girls born in 2003 were named Lesly (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 10,787 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 48.8% of all girls named Lesly (7,454) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s16#3,782 (1939)#4,102
1940s62#3,217 (1946)#3,758
1950s157#1,885 (1951)#3,041
1960s331#1,708 (1962)#2,117
1970s227#2,542 (1971)#3,215
1980s437#1,991 (1982)#2,366
1990s2,729#415 (1999)#999
2000s7,454#364 (2003)#414
2010s2,850#581 (2010)#997
2020s1,018#1,099 (2024)#1,349

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.

Lesly in 1936

girls
#4,181
5 births · 1 in 208,078 girls

Top girls' names in 1936

  1. #1Mary54,377
  2. #2Shirley35,161
  3. #3Barbara31,682
  4. #4Betty25,868
  5. #5Patricia23,916
  6. #6Dorothy17,666
  7. #7Joan17,072
  8. #8Nancy16,755
  9. #9Margaret14,596
  10. #10Carol14,520
  11. #4,181Lesly5
More about 1936

girls

1,040,390 girls got a published name in 1936; 1 in 208,078 of them was named Lesly, which outranked 13.9% of the 4,856 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Lesly
  1. #3,701Zandra6
  2. #3,701Zelphia6
  3. #3,701Zilphia6
  4. #4,181Lesly5
  5. #4,181Adalene5
  6. #4,181Addis5
  7. #4,181Adelita5

Tied with 675 names at #4,181; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1935
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,238Shelba#3,742 → #504
  2. ↑ 662Shelby#840 → #178
  3. ↑ 600Wendy#1,418 → #818
  4. ↑ 588Deanna#1,356 → #768
  5. ↑ 546Shari#1,514 → #968
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,028Norita#713 → #1,741
  2. ↓ 506Vernetta#974 → #1,480
  3. ↓ 461Ozella#984 → #1,445
  4. ↓ 400Shirleyann#896 → #1,296
  5. ↓ 342Idell#925 → #1,267

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1936 →