Humanverse

Lezli vs Lezly

American parents have registered 543 Lezlys since 1880, against 348 Lezlis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lezli against Lezly, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lezli Lezly

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 56 years in which either name was published, Lezli for 28 years and Lezly for 28 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lezli Lezly
Total US births 348543
Most in one year 1556
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 320540
Median age today 5421
Peak year 19622004
Best rank 3,293rd girls2,851st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19531989
Girls / boys 348 / 0543 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lezlis alive today are over 54; half the Lezlys are over 21. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lezli and Lezly.