How popular is “Leslie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Leslie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Leslie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Leslie” 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
1880	87	0.000431796	8	79	-82%
1881	103	0.000534543	11	92	-79%
1882	131	0.000591334	9	122	-86%
1883	127	0.000585399	7	120	-89%
1884	140	0.000575041	15	125	-79%
1885	132	0.00054805	10	122	-85%
1886	144	0.000564007	8	136	-89%
1887	178	0.000719506	12	166	-87%
1888	198	0.000661159	23	175	-77%
1889	178	0.000616032	23	155	-74%
1890	201	0.000666886	20	181	-80%
1891	192	0.000669753	28	164	-71%
1892	229	0.000684862	22	207	-81%
1893	211	0.000648786	26	185	-75%
1894	259	0.000764711	36	223	-72%
1895	257	0.000732152	22	235	-83%
1896	264	0.000738495	27	237	-80%
1897	256	0.000737844	34	222	-73%
1898	252	0.000660628	24	228	-81%
1899	199	0.000586616	18	181	-82%
1900	305	0.000677389	30	275	-80%
1901	227	0.000656426	29	198	-74%
1902	288	0.0007447	37	251	-74%
1903	251	0.000658447	24	227	-81%
1904	266	0.000659256	30	236	-77%
1905	272	0.000641627	35	237	-74%
1906	292	0.000681525	29	263	-80%
1907	307	0.000659662	34	273	-78%
1908	320	0.000654867	41	279	-74%
1909	327	0.000639641	35	292	-79%
1910	365	0.000617899	52	313	-72%
1911	358	0.000555661	35	323	-80%
1912	742	0.000750965	49	693	-87%
1913	890	0.000782686	52	838	-88%
1914	1144	0.000807713	68	1076	-88%
1915	1497	0.00081695	88	1409	-88%
1916	1456	0.000752682	101	1355	-86%
1917	1539	0.000766912	99	1440	-87%
1918	1771	0.000815711	127	1644	-86%
1919	1653	0.000783321	114	1539	-86%
1920	1684	0.000744262	92	1592	-89%
1921	1773	0.000759476	126	1647	-86%
1922	1665	0.000727342	121	1544	-85%
1923	1704	0.000740071	151	1553	-82%
1924	1806	0.000758311	142	1664	-84%
1925	1657	0.000710152	139	1518	-83%
1926	1607	0.000699942	140	1467	-83%
1927	1567	0.000675618	126	1441	-84%
1928	1482	0.00065548	102	1380	-86%
1929	1361	0.000620849	102	1259	-85%
1930	1369	0.000615755	132	1237	-81%
1931	1293	0.00061443	101	1192	-84%
1932	1271	0.000602001	94	1177	-85%
1933	1291	0.000645679	123	1168	-81%
1934	1340	0.000645218	125	1215	-81%
1935	1383	0.000661754	161	1222	-77%
1936	1431	0.000688783	179	1252	-75%
1937	1414	0.000663641	177	1237	-75%
1938	1424	0.000643594	176	1248	-75%
1939	1473	0.0006685	179	1294	-76%
1940	1624	0.000705264	254	1370	-69%
1941	2062	0.000846322	505	1557	-51%
1942	2568	0.000940033	834	1734	-35%
1943	3054	0.001081997	1137	1917	-26%
1944	3173	0.001179519	1202	1971	-24%
1945	3679	0.001386779	1704	1975	-7%
1946	4277	0.001338526	2139	2138	0%
1947	4663	0.001294443	2358	2305	1%
1948	4519	0.0013089	2305	2214	2%
1949	4626	0.001327488	2418	2208	5%
1950	4461	0.00127335	2329	2132	4%
1951	4838	0.00131334	2540	2298	5%
1952	5932	0.001561873	3573	2359	20%
1953	6188	0.001605753	3904	2284	26%
1954	6379	0.001602479	4147	2232	30%
1955	6636	0.001652769	4405	2231	33%
1956	6432	0.001560015	4382	2050	36%
1957	8199	0.001951147	6103	2096	49%
1958	7957	0.001924815	6014	1943	51%
1959	7408	0.001781629	5651	1757	53%
1960	6915	0.001664735	5241	1674	52%
1961	7291	0.001760133	5669	1622	56%
1962	7428	0.001840723	5778	1650	56%
1963	7413	0.001872821	5856	1557	58%
1964	7044	0.001811913	5598	1446	59%
1965	6293	0.001735785	4875	1418	55%
1966	6238	0.00179477	4999	1239	60%
1967	6380	0.001879291	5318	1062	67%
1968	6294	0.001863005	5282	1012	68%
1969	6878	0.001979097	5835	1043	70%
1970	6636	0.001840004	5622	1014	69%
1971	6096	0.00177604	5111	985	68%
1972	5024	0.001598476	4184	840	67%
1973	4744	0.001572482	3954	790	67%
1974	5154	0.001695395	4463	691	73%
1975	4785	0.001584755	4105	680	72%
1976	4845	0.001596744	4311	534	78%
1977	4858	0.001529359	4250	608	75%
1978	4866	0.001533144	4342	524	78%
1979	5027	0.001510971	4498	529	79%
1980	5283	0.001533747	4776	507	81%
1981	5433	0.001570515	4934	499	82%
1982	5415	0.001543631	4984	431	84%
1983	4663	0.001346389	4249	414	82%
1984	4184	0.001199282	3817	367	82%
1985	3937	0.001103076	3606	331	83%
1986	3605	0.001013472	3225	380	79%
1987	3484	0.000966271	3194	290	83%
1988	3398	0.00091961	3080	318	81%
1989	3191	0.000830028	2864	327	80%
1990	3123	0.000790137	2828	295	81%
1991	2830	0.000726523	2551	279	80%
1992	2698	0.000702371	2482	216	84%
1993	2494	0.000661489	2294	200	84%
1994	2606	0.00070098	2398	208	84%
1995	2499	0.000682385	2313	186	85%
1996	2839	0.000778406	2664	175	88%
1997	2979	0.000821623	2821	158	89%
1998	3202	0.000870533	3079	123	92%
1999	3461	0.000936958	3341	120	93%
2000	3760	0.000994734	3623	137	93%
2001	3737	0.000998293	3612	125	93%
2002	3618	0.000967822	3522	96	95%
2003	3740	0.00098361	3639	101	95%
2004	3590	0.000939564	3500	90	95%
2005	3224	0.000838525	3122	102	94%
2006	3118	0.000788132	3036	82	95%
2007	2772	0.000693402	2690	82	94%
2008	2401	0.000610838	2325	76	94%
2009	2059	0.000538981	1983	76	93%
2010	1612	0.000436178	1565	47	94%
2011	1340	0.000366341	1286	54	92%
2012	1275	0.000348611	1225	50	92%
2013	1147	0.00031462	1111	36	94%
2014	1061	0.000286263	1000	61	89%
2015	936	0.000252911	880	56	88%
2016	851	0.000231962	806	45	89%
2017	749	0.00020944	704	45	88%
2018	638	0.000181462	600	38	88%
2019	622	0.000179203	572	50	84%
2020	514	0.000153866	488	26	90%
2021	510	0.000150534	477	33	87%
2022	486	0.000143654	453	33	86%
2023	480	0.000144963	440	40	83%
2024	536	0.000161033	495	41	85%

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