Lesly
Lesly was given to 149 girls in 2025, #1,448 among girls’ names; 15,785 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 15,400 Americans named Lesly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lesly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lesly mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Lesly is “a female given name, a less common spelling off Leslie”
/lɛ.sli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lesly?
#1,448 among girls’ names, 2025
Lesly fell from #1,116 in 2015 to #1,448 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.13 to 0.09 per 1,000.
847 babies in 2003, the peak
Lesly peaked in 2003, when 847 babies were given it (839 girls, #364 among girls’ names). The 149 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 149 | #1,448 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 223 | #1,101 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,458 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 181 | #1,306 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,466 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 165 | #1,340 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,324 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,231 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,222 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 194 | #1,261 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 230 | #1,116 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 276 | #968 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 314 | #839 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 367 | #758 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 404 | #693 | 0.23 |
| 2010 | 505 | #581 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 598 | #505 | 0.33 |
| 2008 | 699 | #452 | 0.37 |
| 2007 | 766 | #429 | 0.40 |
| 2006 | 761 | #419 | 0.40 |
| 2005 | 783 | #401 | 0.42 |
| 2004 | 747 | #407 | 0.41 |
| 2003 | 839 | #364 | 0.46 |
| 2002 | 717 | #407 | 0.40 |
| 2001 | 802 | #371 | 0.45 |
| 2000 | 742 | #389 | 0.41 |
| 1999 | 672 | #415 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 516 | #492 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 401 | #580 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 330 | #671 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 195 | #966 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 160 | #1,124 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 145 | #1,197 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,438 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,443 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,677 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,318 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,135 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,115 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,653 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,625 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,575 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,006 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,328 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,914 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,206 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,044 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,144 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,111 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,376 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,966 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,958 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,572 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,822 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,155 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,392 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,967 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,782 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,048 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,057 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,276 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,128 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,431 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,540 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,676 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,095 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,376 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,903 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,336 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,512 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,062 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,569 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,339 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,304 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,461 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,793 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,039 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,565 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lesly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 15,785 Americans recorded as Lesly, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 149 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lesly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lesly, and how old are they?
15,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 15,785 Americans ever recorded as Lesly. The median Lesly alive today is 22 years old; half are between 17 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 15,372 people named Lesly (14,345 women and girls, 1,027 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 19 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 357 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 491 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,670 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,580 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lesly born?
The states with the most babies named Lesly are California, Texas and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,210 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,339 | 1.8× |
| New York | 12 | #1,205 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,215 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 8 | #903 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,187 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,477 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,368 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,064 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,157 | 1.3× |
Where Lesly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lesly is most over-represented in California: since 1919 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lesly with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 452,532 babies since 1880, Lesly is the third most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 149 of their 617 babies (24%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lesly
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lesly and names like it
- Compare Lesly and LeslieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLesly peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lesly since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Lesly: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Lesly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lesly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.