Lesli — #5622 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lesli

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,786 babies named Lesli between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lesli currently holds the #5622 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 166 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lesli performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,420 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Lesli shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 875 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lesli in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lesli 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 5,786 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.