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Lessie

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Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lessie has been given to 15,018 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 382 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Lessie, 2023

1 in 474,000

Lessie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Lessie over time

In 2023, Lessie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18802023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Lessie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lessie means

Lessie is a given name.

The naming story behind Lessie

Wikidata records Lessie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q123269812, 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, 14,073 girls were recorded with the name Lessie between 1880 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 382 in 1916; its best national rank was #233 in 1904.

In the United States, 945 boys were recorded with the name Lessie between 1883 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1925; its best national rank was #880 in 1903.

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 Lessie?

Lessie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 229,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
328,234 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lessie 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 2023 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 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lessie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lessies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lessie was born before 1922 — so the typical Lessie is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.37%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,834
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1910s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (3,028).

Is Lessie 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 1916 (382)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#233
1904

Spellings of Lessie

Lessie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 24.5% against Lessie's 1.3%.

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 Lessie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Lessie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,000 girls, against 1 in 8,641 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).

050 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 2,703
  3. 3Alabama1 in 2,778
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 2,941
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 3,448
  6. 6Georgia1 in 3,704
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 4,545
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 9,091

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. Lessie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Lessie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Lessie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 159,423 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lessie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lessie around the world

Where Lessie 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 Australia
    1983–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lessie

People whose public names include Lessie, 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.

Lessie 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
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Best rank ever
#233
1904
Peak year
1916
382 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
14,073
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#880
1903
Peak year
1925
31 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
945
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lessie

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

LeslyLesleyMaisieDessieKelsieTessieLesliKassieChelsieLesleeCassieGussieLeslieLesaTressieLeslyeEssieCasieJossieKasieRossieHassieLesiaLester

Names with a curve like Lessie

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

HesterZelmaMaudieMadgeVirgieOmaPansyDollieElmaVestaLeotaLetha

Sibling names for Lessie

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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