Lesleigh — girls' name
487 babies named Lesleigh in U.S. Social Security records since 1950, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
25% of everyone ever named Lesleigh was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Lesleigh in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lesleigh
The Social Security Administration has registered 487 babies named Lesleigh between 1950 and 2019, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lesleigh currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lesleigh performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 122 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Lesleigh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lesleigh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 487 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Lesleigh at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lesleigh popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1950
- Peak year (1971)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 70 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
487 total births across 70 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 17 births in a single year.
Lesleigh by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 122 births that decade — 25% of Lesleigh's all-time total
Lesleigh decade highlights
- Peak decade 122 births
- Runner-up 109 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Lesleigh's strongest decade
122 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1950–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.