Lesslie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Lesslie

The Social Security Administration has registered 499 babies named Lesslie between 1957 and 2019, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lesslie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Lesslie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 142 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lesslie performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 206 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Lesslie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 82 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Lesslie in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lesslie 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 499 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.