Lessie
Lessie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 233rd, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916382 births
- Best rank
- #233in 1904
- Since 1880
- 15,017people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,072 girls have been named Lessie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 382 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 382 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1910s alone account for 22%. It has spent 76 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 945 boys have also been given it, 6.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lessie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 449 | |
| 1890s | 1,010 | |
| 1900s | 1,638 | |
| 1910s | 3,028 | |
| 1920s | 2,929 | |
| 1930s | 1,833 | |
| 1940s | 1,351 | |
| 1950s | 890 | |
| 1960s | 469 | |
| 1970s | 187 | |
| 1980s | 159 | |
| 1990s | 84 | |
| 2000s | 38 | |
| 2020s | 7 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Lessie was the 310th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Lessie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Madiepeak 1915
- Exiepeak 1921
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Beulahpeak 1916
- Essiepeak 1921
- Virgiepeak 1918
- Tressiepeak 1921
- Ociepeak 1916
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.