Lessly — girls' name
636 babies named Lessly in U.S. Social Security records since 1988, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
59% of everyone ever named Lessly was born in this single decade.
52 babies were named Lessly in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lessly
The Social Security Administration has registered 636 babies named Lessly between 1988 and 2021, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lessly currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 52 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lessly performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 374 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Lessly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 154 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lessly in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lessly 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 636 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.
Lessly at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lessly popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1988
- Peak year (2001)
- 52
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
636 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 52 births in a single year.
Lessly by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 374 births that decade — 59% of Lessly's all-time total
Lessly decade highlights
- Peak decade 374 births
- Runner-up 149 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Lessly's strongest decade
374 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 59% of all-time use.
Lessly by state
Where Lessly concentrates geographically — total births since 1988
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 154 | 24.2% |
| #2 | Texas | | 127 | 20.0% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.8% |
154 of 636 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 24.2% of nationwide
- Texas 20.0% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 24.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1988–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.