Lessie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lessie

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,072 babies named Lessie between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lessie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 382 babies received it in a single year. Lessie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 945 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lessie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 3,028 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Lessie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 1,570 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Lessie in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lessie 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 14,072 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.