Lessley
Lessley was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 97 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lessley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lessley?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,275, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2002, the peak
Lessley peaked in 2002, when 10 girls were given it, #9,940 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #16,275 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,947 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,940 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,571 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,120 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,763 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,764 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,343 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,770 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 6 | #3,578 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,848 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 6 | #3,604 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,670 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,716 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #4,079 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lessley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 97 Americans recorded as Lessley, 56% are girls and 44% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lessley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lessley, and how old are they?
An estimated 61 Americans named Lessley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 203 people named Lessley (147 women and girls, 56 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Lessley?
Lessley is a less common spelling of Leslie: SSA has recorded 97 Lessley and 383,418 Leslie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 445,025 babies since 1880, Lessley is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 604 babies recorded by SSA was a Lessley (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Lessley and names like it
- Compare Lessley and LeslieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLessley peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lessley since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Lessley.
- Names starting with LMost given first.