How Many People Are Named Lessie?
people named Lessie are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 110,933 people in the US has this name
Based on 15,018 babies named Lessie in Social Security records from 1880 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
407 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of names containing the sound les, such as LESLIE.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Lessie, 92.6% were girls and 7.4% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lessie alive today is about 71 years old, and 80% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 63 and 82 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lessie first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1916, to 407 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Lessie has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #233, in 1904.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #233 (1904) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #309 in the 1910s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lessie alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lessie were born in North Carolina than in any other state: about 302 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lessie was given 5.8 times as often in Mississippi, 5.1 times in North Carolina and 4.6 times in South Carolina.
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