Lesli
The girl's name Lesli has been in the national records since 1946, with 5,799 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 5,500 Leslis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 41.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lesli
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,799
- Estimated living today
- 5,500
- Median age today
- 41
- Peak year
- 2001
- Best rank
- 1,218th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1946
How old the living Leslis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,799 babies given the name since 1946, about 5,500 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 620 of them are children and 490 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1984 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Leslis
- Lesli Linka Glatter (born 1953)American film director
People named Lesli with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lesli is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lesli is most concentrated in Texas (3.7×), California (3.0×), Oklahoma (2.2×), Colorado (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2001
The most popular girls’ names the year Lesli peaked:
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Lesli against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.