# Lesli (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lesli/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,799 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 5,799 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 64 | 2,751 |
| 2012 | 41 | 3,829 |
| 2013 | 23 | 5,754 |
| 2014 | 26 | 5,243 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,395 |
| 2016 | 10 | 10,532 |
| 2017 | 16 | 7,279 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,539 |
| 2019 | 13 | 8,409 |
| 2020 | 17 | 6,803 |
| 2021 | 17 | 6,866 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10,106 |
| 2023 | 15 | 7,488 |
| 2024 | 22 | 5,721 |
| 2025 | 13 | 8,138 |

## People named Lesli

- Lesli Linka Glatter, American film director
- Lesli Kay, American actress (born 1965)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.