Meaning not yet researched.
Lesli: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #839 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #839 in 1967; #8,138 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lesli in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,138 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #839.
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Lesli: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #839 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 166 (2001).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Lesli, making it the 8,138th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,417 places from #5,721 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 22 girls named Lesli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #839, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 166, in 2001. For comparison, it was #5,395 in 2015 and #2,219 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lesli in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 13 babies. In all, 5,799 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,420 babies named Lesli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 144 US girls were named Lesli; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Leslie (383,418 babies since 1880), Lesley (39,098 babies since 1880), Lesly (15,785 babies since 1880) and Leslee (5,001 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lesli in the open dataset we use.
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 | 13 | #8,138 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,721 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,488 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,106 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,866 | — | — |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,803 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,409 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,539 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,279 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,532 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,243 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,754 | — | — |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 2009 | 90 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 2008 | 137 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 2007 | 135 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 2006 | 162 | #1,401 | — | — |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 2004 | 151 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2003 | 135 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 2002 | 147 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 2001 | 166 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1999 | 115 | #1,496 | — | — |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,298 | — | — |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,567 | — | — |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,388 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1985 | 54 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1979 | 79 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1976 | 87 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1975 | 112 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1974 | 117 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1973 | 100 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1972 | 110 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1971 | 121 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1970 | 110 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1969 | 131 | #930 | — | — |
| 1968 | 126 | #924 | — | — |
| 1967 | 145 | #839 | — | — |
| 1966 | 139 | #848 | — | — |
| 1965 | 126 | #895 | — | — |
| 1964 | 117 | #985 | — | — |
| 1963 | 145 | #870 | — | — |
| 1962 | 89 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1961 | 93 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1960 | 79 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1959 | 79 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1958 | 89 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1957 | 80 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,757 | — | — |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1952 | 24 | #2,101 | — | — |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,756 | — | — |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,063 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,814 | — | — |
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).