Lesly Girl
How popular is Lesly?
#1,443 girl name in 2025
149 baby girls were named Lesly in the US in 2025, making it the 1443rd most popular girl name.
Lesly popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,443 for girls (▼ 344 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 149 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-35% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,115 in 2015, #1,334 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2003 (839 girls) |
| Highest rank | #364 in 2003 |
| First recorded | 1936 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lesly counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Leslie family of names ranked #488 for girls in 2025 (#395 the year before), with 585 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lesly is most popular
Babies named Lesly per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maryland: 0.3 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.2 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (77 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (135 girls)
- Arizona: 0.2 per 1,000 (22 girls)
Lesly by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 16 | #3,780 |
| 1940s | 62 | #3,216 |
| 1950s | 157 | #1,884 |
| 1960s | 331 | #1,707 |
| 1970s | 227 | #2,542 |
| 1980s | 437 | #1,991 |
| 1990s | 2,729 | #415 |
| 2000s | 7,454 | #364 |
| 2010s | 2,850 | #581 |
| 2020s | 1,018 | #1,099 |
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Questions
- Is Lesly a boy or girl name?
- Lesly is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lesly were girls.
- How popular is the name Lesly?
- 149 baby girls were named Lesly in the US in 2025, making it the 1443rd most popular girl name.
- When was Lesly most popular?
- Lesly peaked in 2003, when 839 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #364 in 2003.
- How many people are named Lesly?
- 15,785 babies have been named Lesly in the US since 1880. We estimate about 15,450 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 22.
- Where is Lesly most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lesly was most common in Maryland, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.