How Many People Are Named Lesli?

5,450

people named Lesli are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 62,712 people in the US has this name

Based on 5,799 babies named Lesli in Social Security records from 1946 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,522

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,966

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Peak Year

2001

166 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lesli in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lesli alive today is about 40 years old, and 43% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 23 and 56 in 2025.

Under 30 2,117
38.8%
30 to 59 2,345
43%
60 and over 989
18.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lesli first appears in the records in 1946 and was given most often in 2001, to 166 babies. In 2025, 13 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1946 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lesli has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #839, in 1967. In 2025 it ranked #8,136.

Girls
Rank in 2025#8,136
Best rank#839 (1967)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,492 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lesli alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lesli were born in California than in any other state: about 826 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lesli was given 3.4 times as often in Texas, 2.7 times in Oklahoma and 2.4 times in California.

California 826
Texas 809
Illinois 158
Florida 96
Oklahoma 82
Ohio 82
New York 78
North Carolina 72
Missouri 70
Georgia 68
Michigan 65
Indiana 57
Colorado 48
Arizona 46
Tennessee 26
Virginia 25
Washington 24
Louisiana 20
Oregon 19
Utah 19
New Jersey 17
Maryland 15
Kansas 9
Nevada 7
Arkansas 6
Pennsylvania 5
Mississippi 5
Minnesota 5
Massachusetts 5
Kentucky 5
District of Columbia 5
Alabama 5

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