Meaning not yet researched.
Les: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #587 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #587 in 1961; #7,472 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Les in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,472 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #587.
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Les: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #587 in 1961 · most boys in one year: 182 (1961).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Les, making it the 7,472nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 5,972 places from #13,444 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 5 boys named Les in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #587, reached in 1961. That year also had the most boys given the name: 182. For comparison, it was #7,827 in 2015 and #1,381 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Les in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 3,480 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,078 babies named Les.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 91 US boys were named Les; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Liz (10,223 babies since 1880) and Lise (2,791 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Less, Leise and Leshe are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Less (281), Leise (10), Leshe (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Les in the open dataset we use.
Les is listed as a nickname for Lesley, Leslie, Lester.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,472 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,444 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,685 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,507 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #13,305 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,857 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,017 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,314 |
| 2017 | — | — | 12 | #6,943 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,217 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,827 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #9,290 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,304 |
| 2012 | — | — | 5 | #13,430 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,307 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,335 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #8,066 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,730 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,447 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,215 |
| 2005 | — | — | 5 | #12,577 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,547 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #9,249 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #11,627 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,473 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,427 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,626 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,927 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,369 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,380 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,259 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,490 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,334 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,566 |
| 1989 | — | — | 17 | #3,391 |
| 1988 | — | — | 27 | #2,284 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,253 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,365 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,399 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,042 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,541 |
| 1982 | — | — | 19 | #2,566 |
| 1981 | — | — | 21 | #2,384 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,413 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,643 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,337 |
| 1977 | — | — | 32 | #1,693 |
| 1976 | — | — | 30 | #1,728 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,921 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,815 |
| 1973 | — | — | 29 | #1,632 |
| 1972 | — | — | 25 | #1,802 |
| 1971 | — | — | 48 | #1,192 |
| 1970 | — | — | 54 | #1,125 |
| 1969 | — | — | 57 | #1,022 |
| 1968 | — | — | 63 | #915 |
| 1967 | — | — | 71 | #853 |
| 1966 | — | — | 83 | #802 |
| 1965 | — | — | 92 | #768 |
| 1964 | — | — | 105 | #750 |
| 1963 | — | — | 121 | #708 |
| 1962 | — | — | 126 | #690 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,244 | 182 | #587 |
| 1960 | — | — | 172 | #600 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,791 | 160 | #612 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,838 | 162 | #604 |
| 1957 | — | — | 126 | #680 |
| 1956 | — | — | 112 | #702 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,323 | 59 | #980 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,216 | 41 | #1,180 |
| 1953 | — | — | 39 | #1,205 |
| 1952 | — | — | 30 | #1,393 |
| 1951 | — | — | 33 | #1,287 |
| 1950 | — | — | 28 | #1,381 |
| 1949 | — | — | 49 | #1,002 |
| 1948 | — | — | 70 | #817 |
| 1947 | — | — | 91 | #722 |
| 1946 | — | — | 74 | #775 |
| 1945 | — | — | 50 | #907 |
| 1944 | — | — | 54 | #864 |
| 1943 | — | — | 61 | #852 |
| 1942 | — | — | 33 | #1,224 |
| 1941 | — | — | 30 | #1,223 |
| 1940 | — | — | 37 | #1,085 |
| 1939 | — | — | 17 | #1,685 |
| 1938 | — | — | 18 | #1,656 |
| 1937 | — | — | 26 | #1,330 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,619 |
| 1935 | — | — | 16 | #1,799 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,821 |
| 1933 | — | — | 11 | #2,305 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,401 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,993 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,542 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,470 |
| 1926 | — | — | 9 | #3,033 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,592 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,334 |
| 1922 | — | — | 11 | #2,730 |
| 1921 | — | — | 15 | #2,219 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #3,094 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,562 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,083 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,557 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,754 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,418 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).