girls:
499 births since 1957
#5217 (9th percentile)
boys:
142 births since 1915
#4444 (3rd percentile)
overall:
641 births since 1915
#7098 (8th percentile)
The name Lesslie is the #7,098 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 641 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 8.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,217 (8.7% percentile) for all time with 499 births since 1957. For boys, it ranks #4,444 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 1915.
Lesslie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1957 for girls). Birth data for Lesslie is available in 61 out of the 105 years between 1915 and 2019 (42 years for girls and 20 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 Lesslie has been given predominantly to girls, with 77.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2019, 100.0% of babies named Lesslie were girls. Interestingly, until around 1967, the name was more popular for boys (93.4% boys from 1915 to 1966), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1967 to 2019).
For girls, Lesslie reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #872) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
For boys, Lesslie reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #545) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lesslie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lesslie is pronounced as LEH-slee, which has 2 syllables.
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