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How popular is “Lesley” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lesley” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lesley” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lesley” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lesley” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lesley” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lesley” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lesley” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1882 6 0.000027084 6 -100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1896 5 0.000013987 5 -100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 -100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 -100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 -100%
1903 17 0.000044596 17 -100%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 10 0.000023589 10 -100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1910 17 0.000028779 5 12 -41%
1911 11 0.000017073 11 -100%
1912 19 0.00001923 19 -100%
1913 32 0.000028142 10 22 -38%
1914 27 0.000019063 5 22 -63%
1915 37 0.000020192 10 27 -46%
1916 41 0.000021195 12 29 -41%
1917 41 0.000020431 5 36 -76%
1918 52 0.000023951 11 41 -58%
1919 48 0.000022746 7 41 -71%
1920 65 0.000028727 15 50 -54%
1921 53 0.000022703 14 39 -47%
1922 64 0.000027958 6 58 -81%
1923 54 0.000023453 9 45 -67%
1924 47 0.000019735 7 40 -70%
1925 67 0.000028715 14 53 -58%
1926 51 0.000022213 15 36 -41%
1927 65 0.000028025 14 51 -57%
1928 51 0.000022557 5 46 -80%
1929 54 0.000024633 13 41 -52%
1930 48 0.00002159 8 40 -67%
1931 34 0.000016157 9 25 -47%
1932 36 0.000017051 5 31 -72%
1933 52 0.000026007 17 35 -35%
1934 65 0.000031298 23 42 -29%
1935 65 0.000031102 28 37 -14%
1936 49 0.000023585 18 31 -27%
1937 75 0.0000352 36 39 -4%
1938 79 0.000035705 39 40 -1%
1939 79 0.000035853 36 43 -9%
1940 89 0.000038651 32 57 -28%
1941 103 0.000042275 56 47 9%
1942 162 0.000059301 102 60 26%
1943 163 0.000057749 95 68 17%
1944 199 0.000073976 129 70 30%
1945 177 0.000066719 129 48 46%
1946 261 0.000081682 204 57 56%
1947 286 0.000079393 215 71 50%
1948 283 0.000081969 212 71 50%
1949 330 0.000094698 249 81 51%
1950 318 0.00009077 254 64 60%
1951 383 0.00010397 297 86 55%
1952 386 0.000101632 307 79 59%
1953 367 0.000095235 297 70 62%
1954 429 0.00010777 354 75 65%
1955 402 0.000100123 333 69 66%
1956 375 0.000090952 295 80 57%
1957 480 0.000114227 397 83 65%
1958 388 0.000093858 286 102 47%
1959 406 0.000097643 305 101 50%
1960 320 0.000077038 244 76 52%
1961 352 0.000084977 276 76 57%
1962 388 0.00009615 304 84 57%
1963 438 0.000110656 350 88 60%
1964 481 0.000123727 403 78 68%
1965 839 0.00023142 744 95 77%
1966 852 0.000245134 752 100 77%
1967 788 0.000232113 689 99 75%
1968 747 0.00022111 661 86 77%
1969 780 0.00022444 714 66 83%
1970 841 0.000233189 766 75 82%
1971 920 0.000268038 849 71 85%
1972 706 0.000224627 641 65 82%
1973 686 0.000227387 611 75 78%
1974 842 0.000276974 783 59 86%
1975 770 0.000255018 714 56 85%
1976 809 0.000266618 752 57 86%
1977 931 0.00029309 848 83 82%
1978 888 0.000279785 842 46 90%
1979 955 0.000287045 913 42 91%
1980 981 0.000284801 928 53 89%
1981 929 0.000268546 869 60 87%
1982 874 0.000249148 834 40 91%
1983 777 0.00022435 735 42 89%
1984 648 0.00018574 607 41 87%
1985 592 0.000165868 566 26 91%
1986 560 0.000157433 520 40 86%
1987 496 0.000137563 472 24 90%
1988 503 0.000136128 480 23 91%
1989 421 0.000109509 394 27 87%
1990 466 0.000117901 440 26 89%
1991 402 0.000103202 372 30 85%
1992 373 0.000097103 354 19 90%
1993 336 0.000089118 314 22 87%
1994 308 0.000082848 288 20 87%
1995 286 0.000078096 276 10 93%
1996 606 0.000166155 591 15 95%
1997 641 0.000176791 626 15 95%
1998 710 0.000193029 695 15 96%
1999 703 0.000190315 682 21 94%
2000 675 0.000178576 658 17 95%
2001 518 0.000138377 509 9 97%
2002 482 0.000128936 471 11 95%
2003 464 0.000122031 452 12 95%
2004 460 0.00012039 451 9 96%
2005 390 0.000101435 382 8 96%
2006 383 0.00009681 371 12 94%
2007 359 0.000089802 352 7 96%
2008 259 0.000065892 254 5 96%
2009 233 0.000060992 223 10 91%
2010 226 0.000061152 219 7 94%
2011 182 0.000049757 175 7 92%
2012 131 0.000035818 131 100%
2013 120 0.000032916 120 100%
2014 113 0.000030488 113 100%
2015 102 0.000027561 96 6 88%
2016 84 0.000022896 76 8 81%
2017 52 0.000014541 52 100%
2018 62 0.000017634 62 100%
2019 51 0.000014693 51 100%
2020 51 0.000015267 51 100%
2021 39 0.000011511 39 100%
2022 51 0.000015075 51 100%
2023 29 0.000008758 29 100%
2024 36 0.000010816 36 100%

Explore other names

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