Lezley
Lezley was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 280 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lezley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lezley?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,418, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1965, the peak
Lezley peaked in 1965, when 12 girls were given it, #3,850 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,418 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,185 | 6.2 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,484 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,229 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,086 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,054 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,580 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,953 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,010 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,837 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #16,483 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,657 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,857 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,766 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,422 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,157 | 3.4 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,964 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,046 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,477 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,346 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,663 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,634 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,348 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,116 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,345 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,606 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,022 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,825 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,940 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,329 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,726 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,889 | 5.9 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,651 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,774 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,220 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,850 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,778 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,260 | 3.1 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,625 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,547 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lezley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lezley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lezley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lezley, and how old are they?
An estimated 265 Americans named Lezley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 24 and 55. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 319 people named Lezley (316 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 269 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 Lezley?
Lezley is a less common spelling of Lezlie: SSA has recorded 280 Lezley and 2,399 Lezlie since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,053 babies since 1880, Lezley is the fifth most given (6.9% of them).
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lezley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lezley and names like it
- Compare Lezley and LezlieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLezley peaked in 1965.
- The top names of 1965The year the most babies were named Lezley.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lezley alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.