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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Les

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#7,472

up +5,972 places

2025 births

11

up +6 births

All-time births

3,448

0% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1961
182 births
Best rank
#587
in 1961
First recorded
1900
#1,418 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1962
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
106 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1961182#587Peak
  2. 1960172#600
  3. 1958162#604
  4. 1959160#612
  5. 1957126#680

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #587 in 1961 · peak births 182 in 1961

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

3,448 boys · 32 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Les has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.