girls:
14.1k births since 1880
#1298 (77th percentile)
boys:
945 births since 1883
#3646 (20th percentile)
overall:
15k births since 1880
#2142 (72nd percentile)
The name Lessie is the #2,142 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,017 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 72.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,298 (77.3% percentile) for all time with 14,072 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,646 (20.4% percentile) for all time with 945 births since 1883.
Lessie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1883 for boys). Birth data for Lessie is available in 126 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (126 years for girls and 69 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 Lessie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lessie reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 48.6% percentile (ranked #295) with 352 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 598 births per million (ranked 40.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lessie ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lessie reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #520) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 62 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lessie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lessie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lessie is pronounced as LEH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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