Lesslie
Lesslie was last recorded in 2019, when 7 babies were given it; 641 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lesslie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lesslie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,214, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 2002, the peak
Lesslie peaked in 2002, when 27 girls were given it, #4,566 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 7 | #13,214 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,427 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,078 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,024 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,062 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,848 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,181 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,275 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,286 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,931 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 24 | #5,640 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,531 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,388 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,746 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,566 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,924 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,106 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,057 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,263 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,524 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,116 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,110 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,902 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,126 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,499 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,330 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,122 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,781 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,845 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,784 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,660 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,126 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,661 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,630 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,132 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,140 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,885 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,319 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,788 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,566 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,336 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,392 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,616 | 5 | #4,310 |
| 1954 | under 5 | 8 | #3,079 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,376 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,730 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 7 | #3,001 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,362 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,513 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 6 | #3,779 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 8 | #3,249 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 10 | #2,821 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 11 | #2,658 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 10 | #2,854 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 11 | #2,757 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 6 | #4,062 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,414 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 6 | #4,136 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #3,980 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 7 | #3,563 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 5 | #4,144 |
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 Lesslie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 641 Americans recorded as Lesslie, 78% are girls and 22% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lesslie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lesslie, and how old are they?
An estimated 509 Americans named Lesslie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 597 people named Lesslie (523 women and girls, 74 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 522 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above 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 Lesslie?
Lesslie is a less common spelling of Leslie: SSA has recorded 641 Lesslie and 383,418 Leslie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 398,225 babies since 1880, Lesslie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 438 babies recorded by SSA was a Lesslie (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 Lesslie and names like it
- Compare Lesslie and LeslieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLesslie peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lesslie since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Lesslie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lesslie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.