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Lesly

About 15,785 American babies have been named Lesly since 1919, most of them around 2003. In 2025 it ranked 1,443rd. About 15,000 Leslys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Lesly boys named Lesly

By the numbers

Total US births
15,785
Estimated living today
15,000
Median age today
21
Peak year
2003
Best rank
364th
Rank in 2025
1,443rd
First recorded
1919
Girls / boys
15,281 / 504

How old the living Leslys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 15,785 babies given the name since 1919, about 15,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 5,100 of them are children and 230 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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.

Where Lesly is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lesly is most concentrated in Nevada (4.4×), California (3.1×), Arizona (2.8×), Texas (2.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2003

The most popular girls’ names the year Lesly peaked:

All the names of 2003

Lesly elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Lesly 1,990 487th
France boys Lesly 185 1,559th
Belgium girls Lesly 67 784th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Lesly: rank by region

In 2011, Lesly was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Lesly 521 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Related names

Lesly 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.