girls:
45 births since 1969
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1967
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
50 births since 1967
#7689 (1st percentile)
The name Lesile is the #7,689 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 1969. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1967.
Lesile first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (1967 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Lesile is available in 8 out of the 34 years between 1967 and 2000 (7 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lesile has been given predominantly to girls, with 90.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2000, 100.0% of babies named Lesile were girls. Interestingly, until around 1969, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1967 to 1968), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1969 to 2000).
For girls, Lesile reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #749) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
For boys, Lesile reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #635) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lesile".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Lesile. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.2% confident that Lesile is pronounced as LEH-sihl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-sail, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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