girls:
4.9k births since 1922
#2426 (58th percentile)
boys:
96 births since 1955
#4490 (2nd percentile)
overall:
5k births since 1922
#3861 (50th percentile)
The name Leslee is the #3,861 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,994 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 50.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 50.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,426 (57.6% percentile) for all time with 4,898 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #4,490 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 96 births since 1955.
Leslee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 1955 for boys). Birth data for Leslee is available in 87 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (87 years for girls and 16 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 Leslee has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Leslee reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 15.9% percentile (ranked #608) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 66 births per million (ranked 13.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Leslee ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 6.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Leslee reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #671) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leslee".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Leslee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.4% confident that Leslee is pronounced as LEH-slee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEHZ-lee, at 48.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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