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How popular is “Lesly” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lesly” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lesly” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lesly” 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
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1930 6 0.000002699 6 -100%
1936 5 0.000002407 5 100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 100%
1939 6 0.000002723 6 100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 100%
1942 8 0.000002928 8 100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 100%
1947 12 0.000003331 7 5 17%
1948 8 0.000002317 8 100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 100%
1950 17 0.000004852 11 6 29%
1951 27 0.00000733 27 100%
1952 19 0.000005003 9 10 -5%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 100%
1954 14 0.000003517 14 100%
1955 17 0.000004234 8 9 -6%
1956 19 0.000004608 19 100%
1957 19 0.000004522 13 6 37%
1958 21 0.00000508 21 100%
1959 28 0.000006734 23 5 64%
1960 39 0.000009389 30 9 54%
1961 35 0.000008449 28 7 60%
1962 51 0.000012638 44 7 73%
1963 49 0.000012379 39 10 59%
1964 45 0.000011575 34 11 51%
1965 39 0.000010757 33 6 69%
1966 48 0.00001381 41 7 71%
1967 41 0.000012077 36 5 76%
1968 34 0.000010064 27 7 59%
1969 26 0.000007481 19 7 46%
1970 34 0.000009427 25 9 47%
1971 38 0.000011071 29 9 53%
1972 20 0.000006363 11 9 10%
1973 34 0.00001127 23 11 35%
1974 28 0.000009211 20 8 43%
1975 23 0.000007617 23 100%
1976 31 0.000010217 23 8 48%
1977 35 0.000011018 26 9 49%
1978 29 0.000009137 21 8 45%
1979 36 0.000010821 26 10 44%
1980 40 0.000011613 31 9 55%
1981 58 0.000016766 43 15 48%
1982 64 0.000018244 52 12 63%
1983 46 0.000013282 35 11 52%
1984 59 0.000016911 45 14 53%
1985 47 0.000013169 37 10 57%
1986 42 0.000011807 37 5 76%
1987 66 0.000018305 52 14 58%
1988 65 0.000017591 54 11 66%
1989 67 0.000017428 51 16 52%
1990 96 0.000024289 88 8 83%
1991 123 0.000031577 110 13 79%
1992 121 0.0000315 112 9 85%
1993 155 0.000041111 145 10 87%
1994 170 0.000045728 160 10 88%
1995 204 0.000055705 195 9 91%
1996 335 0.000091851 330 5 97%
1997 408 0.000112528 401 7 97%
1998 529 0.00014382 516 13 95%
1999 683 0.000184901 672 11 97%
2000 753 0.000199211 742 11 97%
2001 807 0.00021558 802 5 99%
2002 724 0.000193671 717 7 98%
2003 847 0.000222759 839 8 98%
2004 754 0.000197335 747 7 98%
2005 795 0.00020677 783 12 97%
2006 761 0.000192357 761 100%
2007 766 0.000191611 766 100%
2008 699 0.000177833 699 100%
2009 598 0.000156537 598 100%
2010 505 0.000136644 505 100%
2011 404 0.000110449 404 100%
2012 372 0.000101713 367 5 97%
2013 314 0.00008613 314 100%
2014 276 0.000074466 276 100%
2015 230 0.000062147 230 100%
2016 194 0.00005288 194 100%
2017 197 0.000055086 197 100%
2018 190 0.00005404 190 100%
2019 173 0.000049843 173 100%
2020 165 0.000049393 165 100%
2021 147 0.000043389 147 100%
2022 181 0.000053501 181 100%
2023 153 0.000046207 153 100%
2024 222 0.000066697 222 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Lesly:

  1. Leslie
  2. Leslieann
  3. Leslieanne
  4. Lesliee
  5. Leslly
  6. Lesly (this page)
  7. Leslyann
  8. Leslye
  9. Leslyn
  10. Less
  11. Lessa