Lesly — #1099 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lesly

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,131 babies named Lesly between 1936 and 2024, spanning 89 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lesly currently holds the #1099 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2003, when 839 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lesly performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 7,454 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Lesly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 4,067 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lesly in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lesly 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 15,131 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.