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Lezlie

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lezlie has been given to 2,399 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 95 recorded.

Babies named Lezlie, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lezlie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lezlie means

Lezlie is a given name.

The naming story behind Lezlie

Wikidata records Lezlie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q105975159, 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, 2,399 girls were recorded with the name Lezlie between 1944 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 95 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,079 in 1957.

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 Lezlie?

Lezlie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lezlie 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lezlie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lezlies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lezlie was born before 1969 — so the typical Lezlie is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
26.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,324
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 26.9% of all recorded uses (646).

Is Lezlie 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 (95)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,079
1957

Spellings of Lezlie

Lezlie is not the most common spelling — Leslie is, with 31.0% against Lezlie's 0.27%.

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 Lezlie is used

Across 1910–2025, Lezlie was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 116,459 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 100,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Iowa1 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. Lezlie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lezlie around the world

Where Lezlie 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
    1968–1968
    #679
    in 1968

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

Notable people named Lezlie

People whose public names include Lezlie, 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.

Lezlie 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
#1,079
1957
Peak year
1962
95 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
2,399
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lezlie

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

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Names with a curve like Lezlie

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

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Sibling names for Lezlie

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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