Lesle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lesle has been given to 187 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1962, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Lesle, 1999
1 in 527,000
Lesle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lesle?
Lesle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 527,000
- 7 of 3,692,373 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 253,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 365,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lesle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 365,624 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lesle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lesles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lesle was born before 1961 — so the typical Lesle is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 39.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 182
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (73).
Is Lesle 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (13)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.2% average annual change
Spellings of Lesle
Lesle is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 38.6% against Lesle's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Lesle around the world
Where Lesle 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.
- South Australia1948–1957#581in 1957
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lesle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lesle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lesle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.