girls:
14.9k births since 1936
#1249 (78th percentile)
boys:
504 births since 1919
#4082 (11th percentile)
overall:
15.4k births since 1919
#2105 (73rd percentile)
The name Lesly is the #2,105 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,412 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 72.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,249 (78.2% percentile) for all time with 14,908 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,082 (10.9% percentile) for all time with 504 births since 1919.
Lesly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1936 for girls). Birth data for Lesly is available in 92 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (85 years for girls and 59 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 Lesly has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.7% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1936, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1919 to 1935), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (97.0% girls from 1936 to 2023).
For girls, Lesly reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 62.4% percentile (ranked #342) with 418 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 418 births per million (ranked 62.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2005, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lesly ranks #800 for girls (15.5% percentile) with 87 births per million, which is 20.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lesly reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #742) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lesly".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lesly. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Lesly is pronounced as LEHZ-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-slee, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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