# Lesly (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lesly/  
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 | 15,785 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 504 / 15,281 (97% 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 | 404 | 693 |
| 2012 | 367 | 758 |
| 2013 | 314 | 839 |
| 2014 | 276 | 968 |
| 2015 | 230 | 1,116 |
| 2016 | 194 | 1,261 |
| 2017 | 197 | 1,222 |
| 2018 | 190 | 1,231 |
| 2019 | 173 | 1,324 |
| 2020 | 165 | 1,340 |
| 2021 | 147 | 1,466 |
| 2022 | 181 | 1,306 |
| 2023 | 153 | 1,458 |
| 2024 | 223 | 1,101 |
| 2025 | 149 | 1,448 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 9 | 5,936 |
| 1993 | 10 | 5,625 |
| 1994 | 10 | 5,725 |
| 1995 | 9 | 6,215 |
| 1996 | 5 | 9,929 |
| 1997 | 7 | 7,789 |
| 1998 | 13 | 5,068 |
| 1999 | 11 | 5,892 |
| 2000 | 11 | 6,161 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,629 |
| 2002 | 7 | 9,019 |
| 2003 | 8 | 8,310 |
| 2004 | 7 | 9,549 |
| 2005 | 12 | 6,464 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,431 |

## People named Lesly

- Lesly Malouda, French Guianese football player

## 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.