# Lessie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lessie/  
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 | 15,018 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 945 / 14,073 (94% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 15 | 6,130 |
| 1992 | 9 | 9,180 |
| 1993 | 9 | 9,185 |
| 1995 | 9 | 9,203 |
| 1996 | 7 | 11,273 |
| 1997 | 5 | 15,100 |
| 1998 | 9 | 9,769 |
| 1999 | 7 | 12,126 |
| 2000 | 5 | 16,484 |
| 2002 | 7 | 13,023 |
| 2003 | 9 | 10,929 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18,849 |
| 2007 | 5 | 19,291 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14,715 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,893 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 10 | 2,721 |
| 1957 | 8 | 3,158 |
| 1958 | 6 | 3,764 |
| 1959 | 8 | 3,168 |
| 1960 | 11 | 2,621 |
| 1961 | 11 | 2,635 |
| 1962 | 11 | 2,603 |
| 1963 | 7 | 3,520 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,760 |
| 1969 | 6 | 4,212 |
| 1970 | 5 | 5,149 |
| 1971 | 6 | 4,709 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,554 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,783 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,382 |

## 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.