Lesley
Lesley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 36 births. Its best rank was 268th, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 360.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1980928 births
- Best rank
- #268in 1979
- Since 1893
- 39,070people given the name
The story in the numbers
34,272 girls have been named Lesley in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1980, with 928 births.
The name has all but left use: 36 births in 2024, against 928 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 23%. It has spent 67 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 4,798 boys have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lesley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 65 | |
| 1920s | 112 | |
| 1930s | 219 | |
| 1940s | 1,423 | |
| 1950s | 3,125 | |
| 1960s | 5,137 | |
| 1970s | 7,719 | |
| 1980s | 6,405 | |
| 1990s | 4,638 | |
| 2000s | 4,123 | |
| 2010s | 1,095 | |
| 2020s | 206 |
In 1980, its biggest year
Lesley was the 269th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1980 were Jennifer, Amanda, Jessica, Melissa and Sarah. See all of 1980.
Names that rose and fell with Lesley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nicolapeak 1972
- Andreapeak 1981
- Monicapeak 1979
- Brandapeak 1973
- Leticiapeak 1980
- Jinapeak 1970
- Rosalvapeak 1975
- Camiepeak 1968
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.