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How popular is “Lesli” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lesli” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lesli” 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 “Lesli” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lesli” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lesli” 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
1946 13 0.000004068 13 100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 100%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 100%
1949 17 0.000004878 17 100%
1950 20 0.000005709 20 100%
1951 15 0.000004072 15 100%
1952 24 0.000006319 24 100%
1953 45 0.000011677 45 100%
1954 37 0.000009295 37 100%
1955 36 0.000008966 36 100%
1956 55 0.00001334 55 100%
1957 80 0.000019038 80 100%
1958 89 0.000021529 89 100%
1959 79 0.000019 79 100%
1960 79 0.000019019 79 100%
1961 93 0.000022451 93 100%
1962 89 0.000022055 89 100%
1963 145 0.000036633 145 100%
1964 117 0.000030096 117 100%
1965 126 0.000034754 126 100%
1966 139 0.000039992 139 100%
1967 145 0.000042711 145 100%
1968 126 0.000037296 126 100%
1969 131 0.000037694 131 100%
1970 110 0.0000305 110 100%
1971 121 0.000035253 121 100%
1972 110 0.000034998 110 100%
1973 100 0.000033147 100 100%
1974 117 0.000038487 117 100%
1975 112 0.000037094 112 100%
1976 87 0.000028672 87 100%
1977 81 0.0000255 81 100%
1978 80 0.000025206 80 100%
1979 79 0.000023745 79 100%
1980 86 0.000024967 86 100%
1981 87 0.000025149 87 100%
1982 87 0.000024801 87 100%
1983 59 0.000017036 59 100%
1984 50 0.000014332 50 100%
1985 54 0.00001513 54 100%
1986 53 0.0000149 53 100%
1987 53 0.000014699 53 100%
1988 46 0.000012449 46 100%
1989 48 0.000012486 48 100%
1990 50 0.00001265 50 100%
1991 57 0.000014633 57 100%
1992 56 0.000014579 56 100%
1993 50 0.000013262 50 100%
1994 49 0.00001318 49 100%
1995 58 0.000015838 58 100%
1996 78 0.000021386 78 100%
1997 48 0.000013239 48 100%
1998 79 0.000021478 79 100%
1999 115 0.000031133 115 100%
2000 145 0.000038361 145 100%
2001 166 0.000044345 166 100%
2002 147 0.000039323 147 100%
2003 135 0.000035505 135 100%
2004 151 0.000039519 151 100%
2005 152 0.000039533 152 100%
2006 162 0.000040949 162 100%
2007 135 0.00003377 135 100%
2008 137 0.000034854 137 100%
2009 90 0.000023559 90 100%
2010 76 0.000020564 76 100%
2011 64 0.000017497 64 100%
2012 41 0.00001121 41 100%
2013 23 0.000006309 23 100%
2014 26 0.000007015 26 100%
2015 25 0.000006755 25 100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 100%
2018 11 0.000003129 11 100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 100%
2020 17 0.000005089 17 100%
2021 17 0.000005018 17 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%
2023 15 0.00000453 15 100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 100%

Explore other names

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