Lessly
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Lessly by the numbers
Lessly was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 52 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Lessly
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lessly. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Leslygarden of hollies; spelling variant of Leslie197 in the US (2017)
- Lesleyfrom the grey fort; a form of Leslie52 in the US (2017)
- Leslifrom the gray fortress; a spelling variant of Leslie16 in the US (2017)
- Lissygod's oath; a form of Elizabeth8 in the US (2017)
- Lessiegrey fortress; form of Lesya or Leslie
- Lezly5 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Lessly
Names that are said the same way as Lessly, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Lesliegarden of holly; from a place name746 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Lessly
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