Lesedi
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lesedi has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2016. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Lesedi, 2024
1 in 669,000
Lesedi over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lesedi?
Lesedi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lesedi sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lesedi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lesedis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lesedi was born before 2021 — so the typical Lesedi is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 82.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 82.1% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Lesedi rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2021 (7)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Lesedi
Lesedi is not the most common spelling — Lesli is, with 78.5% against Lesedi's 0.38%.
Lesedi around the world
Where Lesedi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2006–2025#5,927in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Lesedi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lesedi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lesedi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.