Meaning not yet researched.
Lesly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 149 in 2025. Its best rank was #364 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #364 in 2003; #1,448 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lesly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,448 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #364.
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Lesly: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 149 girls in 2025. Peak: #364 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 839 (2003).
In 2025, 149 US girls were named Lesly, making it the 1,448th most common girls’ name of the year, down 347 places from #1,101 in 2024. That is 74 fewer than the 223 girls named Lesly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #364, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 839. For comparison, it was #1,116 in 2015 and #3,337 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lesly in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 15,785 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,504 babies named Lesly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,772 US girls were named Lesly; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 223. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,787 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lesly ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #903 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leslie (383,418 babies since 1880), Lesley (39,098 babies since 1880), Lesli (5,799 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 Lesly in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 8 | #903 | #1,328 |
| Maryland | 5 | #934 | #475 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,064 | #722 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,157 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,187 | #1,031 |
| New York | 12 | #1,205 | #951 |
| California | 21 | #1,210 | #797 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,215 | #1,584 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,339 | #866 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,368 | #947 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,477 | #799 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 149 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2024 | 223 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2023 | 153 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 2022 | 181 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 2021 | 147 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2020 | 165 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2018 | 190 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 2016 | 194 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 2015 | 230 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 2014 | 276 | #968 | — | — |
| 2013 | 314 | #839 | — | — |
| 2012 | 367 | #758 | 5 | #13,431 |
| 2011 | 404 | #693 | — | — |
| 2010 | 505 | #581 | — | — |
| 2009 | 598 | #505 | — | — |
| 2008 | 699 | #452 | — | — |
| 2007 | 766 | #429 | — | — |
| 2006 | 761 | #419 | — | — |
| 2005 | 783 | #401 | 12 | #6,464 |
| 2004 | 747 | #407 | 7 | #9,549 |
| 2003 | 839 | #364 | 8 | #8,310 |
| 2002 | 717 | #407 | 7 | #9,019 |
| 2001 | 802 | #371 | 5 | #11,629 |
| 2000 | 742 | #389 | 11 | #6,161 |
| 1999 | 672 | #415 | 11 | #5,892 |
| 1998 | 516 | #492 | 13 | #5,068 |
| 1997 | 401 | #580 | 7 | #7,789 |
| 1996 | 330 | #671 | 5 | #9,929 |
| 1995 | 195 | #969 | 9 | #6,215 |
| 1994 | 160 | #1,127 | 10 | #5,725 |
| 1993 | 145 | #1,199 | 10 | #5,625 |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,441 | 9 | #5,936 |
| 1991 | 110 | #1,447 | 13 | #4,375 |
| 1990 | 88 | #1,681 | 8 | #6,181 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,323 | 16 | #3,543 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,140 | 11 | #4,339 |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,117 | 14 | #3,446 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,654 | 5 | #7,381 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,626 | 10 | #4,230 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,212 | 14 | #3,203 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,576 | 11 | #3,774 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,006 | 12 | #3,612 |
| 1981 | 43 | #2,328 | 15 | #2,975 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,914 | 9 | #4,359 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,206 | 10 | #3,970 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,578 | 8 | #4,402 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,045 | 9 | #4,030 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,145 | 8 | #4,247 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,376 | 8 | #4,042 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,966 | 11 | #3,144 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,959 | 9 | #3,509 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,572 | 9 | #3,549 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,822 | 9 | #3,424 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,156 | 7 | #3,795 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,392 | 7 | #3,543 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,967 | 5 | #4,314 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,782 | 7 | #3,415 |
| 1965 | 33 | #2,048 | 6 | #3,759 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,058 | 11 | #2,609 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,885 | 10 | #2,786 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,719 | 7 | #3,506 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,277 | 7 | #3,538 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,129 | 9 | #2,987 |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,432 | 5 | #4,324 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,407 | 6 | #3,803 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,677 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,582 | 9 | #2,884 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,096 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,377 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,985 | 10 | #2,616 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,337 | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,064 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,571 | 5 | #4,039 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,306 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,462 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,795 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,041 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,689 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,567 | — | — |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,833 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,613 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,672 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,680 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,696 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,080 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,525 |
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).