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Leslye

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Leslye has been given to 2,446 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 2002, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Leslye, 2024

1 in 257,000

Leslye over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leslye: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Leslye means

Leslye is a given name.

The naming story behind Leslye

Wikidata records Leslye as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q88542393, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,446 girls were recorded with the name Leslye between 1920 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 85 in 2002; its best national rank was #1,263 in 1952.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Leslye?

Leslye 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 257,000
13 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 125,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
178,236 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leslye sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 178,236 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leslye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leslyes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leslye was born before 1988 — so the typical Leslye is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,247
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (681).

Is Leslye 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 2002 (85)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,263
1952

Spellings of Leslye

Leslye is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 76.0% against Leslye's 0.69%.

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.

Where Leslye is used

Across 1910–2025, Leslye was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 95,381 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Leslye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Leslye around the world

Where Leslye 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.

  • France
    1982–2017
    #6,298
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1950–1950
    #436
    in 1950

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Leslye

People whose public names include Leslye, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Leslye by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,263
1952
Peak year
2002
85 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,446
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leslye

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Leslye

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Leslye, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AnetteRayleneTamyraSindyDenniseLisbethPeriKarlynJaniseRaeleneLannaJaniece

Sibling names for Leslye

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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