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
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 839 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,281since 1936
Lesly over time
Rank among girls' names. Lesly has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,443 | 149 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,099 | 223 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,455 | 153 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,304 | 181 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,460 | 147 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,334 | 165 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,319 | 173 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,229 | 190 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,217 | 197 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,257 | 194 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,115 | 230 | — | |
| 2014 | #966 | 276 | — | |
| 2013 | #838 | 314 | — | |
| 2012 | #757 | 367 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #693 | 404 | — | |
| 2010 | #581 | 505 | — | |
| 2009 | #505 | 598 | — | |
| 2008 | #451 | 699 | — | |
| 2007 | #429 | 766 | — | |
| 2006 | #418 | 761 | — | |
| 2005 | #401 | 783 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #407 | 747 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #364 | 839 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #406 | 717 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #371 | 802 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #389 | 742 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #415 | 672 | #5,656 | 11 |
| 1998 | #491 | 516 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #578 | 401 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #671 | 330 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #967 | 195 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #1,125 | 160 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #1,194 | 145 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #1,434 | 112 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #1,443 | 110 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #1,670 | 88 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #2,131 | 54 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 | #3,107 | 14 |
| 1983 | #2,552 | 35 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | #1,991 | 52 | #3,482 | 12 |
| 1981 | #2,305 | 43 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | #3,147 | 26 | #3,810 | 10 |
| 1978 | #3,512 | 21 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 23 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #2,914 | 23 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,542 | 29 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #2,779 | 25 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #2,360 | 27 | #3,365 | 7 |
| 1967 | #1,947 | 36 | #3,966 | 5 |
| 1966 | #1,766 | 41 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #2,031 | 33 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #2,040 | 34 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #1,867 | 39 | #2,673 | 10 |
| 1962 | #1,708 | 44 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #2,250 | 28 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 | #2,871 | 9 |
| 1959 | #2,395 | 23 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 21 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,309 | 13 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | #2,764 | 9 |
| 1954 | #3,019 | 14 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 | #2,514 | 10 |
| 1951 | #1,885 | 27 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | #3,733 | 5 |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #4,307 | 5 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#617 · 1 in 3,005
- North Carolina#682 · 1 in 3,485
- California#753 · 1 in 4,334
- New Jersey#761 · 1 in 4,064
- Virginia#917 · 1 in 5,305
Best ever in a state: #89 in District of Columbia, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #617 | 8 | 1 in 3,005 |
| North Carolina | #682 | 13 | 1 in 3,485 |
| California | #753 | 47 | 1 in 4,334 |
| New Jersey | #761 | 9 | 1 in 4,064 |
| Virginia | #917 | 7 | 1 in 5,305 |
| New York | #923 | 17 | 1 in 5,285 |
| Texas | #988 | 28 | 1 in 5,975 |
| Florida | #1,109 | 12 | 1 in 7,226 |
| Georgia | #1,319 | 6 | 1 in 8,008 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lesly
- 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)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 2003 at #364 (839 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 1995–2014
- 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%)
- 48.8% of all girls named Lesly (7,454) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 16 | #3,782 (1939) | #4,102 |
| 1940s | 62 | #3,217 (1946) | #3,758 |
| 1950s | 157 | #1,885 (1951) | #3,041 |
| 1960s | 331 | #1,708 (1962) | #2,117 |
| 1970s | 227 | #2,542 (1971) | #3,215 |
| 1980s | 437 | #1,991 (1982) | #2,366 |
| 1990s | 2,729 | #415 (1999) | #999 |
| 2000s | 7,454 | #364 (2003) | #414 |
| 2010s | 2,850 | #581 (2010) | #997 |
| 2020s | 1,018 | #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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 9,134 of them was named Lesly, which outranked 93.3% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,252Geneva195
- #1,252Gwyneth195
- #1,252Kamari195
- #1,257Lesly194
- #1,257Addelyn194
- #1,257Annaliese194
- #1,257Ashtyn194
- #1,264Anayah193
- #1,264Christiana193
- #1,264Shannon193
Tied with 6 names at #1,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.