Leslie
Leslie is ranked 605th among girls in 2024 (495 births). Its best rank was 56th, in 1981.
- Rank in 2024
- #605up 65 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4950.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 19576,103 births
- Best rank
- #56in 1981
- Since 1880
- 382,987people given the name
The story in the numbers
270,029 girls have been named Leslie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 6,103 births — 0.30% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 338 → 605).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1973, and the 1960s alone account for 20%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 41 of them in the top 100.
Leslie is used for both sexes: 29% of its bearers are boys (112,958), most of them born around 1952.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Leslie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 126 | |
| 1890s | 257 | |
| 1900s | 324 | |
| 1910s | 785 | |
| 1920s | 1,241 | |
| 1930s | 1,447 | |
| 1940s | 14,856 | |
| 1950s | 43,048 | |
| 1960s | 54,451 | |
| 1970s | 44,840 | |
| 1980s | 38,729 | |
| 1990s | 26,771 | |
| 2000s | 31,052 | |
| 2010s | 9,749 | |
| 2020s | 2,353 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Leslie was the 77th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Leslie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nelidapeak 1964
- Jolynpeak 1969
- Leannpeak 1963
- Jolynnpeak 1962
- Renaepeak 1970
- Risapeak 1962
- Tanapeak 1962
- Starlapeak 1980
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.