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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Leslie

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#712

down −106 places

2025 births

393

down −103 births

All-time births

270,429

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
6,103 births
Best rank
#56
in 1981
First recorded
1880
#655 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1976
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19576,103#77Peak
  2. 19586,014#79
  3. 19635,857#72
  4. 19695,836#64
  5. 19625,778#80

Rank over time

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

Best rank #56 in 1981 · peak births 6,103 in 1957

Boys and girls

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

● 29% boys■ 71% girls

112,989 boys · 270,429 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 Leslie has ranked, decade by decade

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