MEANING & HISTORY
What does Lesty mean?
Lesty is explicitly recorded as a familiar form of Lester. Lester comes through an English surname from Leicester, a city-name with older river and Latin camp elements.
The y ending creates a personal familiar form. Its recorded Cebuano feminine use does not require copying another language’s gender category.
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Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
A diminutive of Lester.
a female given name from English
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Lesty in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Lesty
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Letty♀Familiar form of Letitia; joy
- Leody♂Clipping of Leodigario or Leodegario
- Leroy♂The king
- Lester♂Given name taken from an English surname
- Levy·Form in the Levi name and surname tradition
- Lea·Form of Leah; biblical name with disputed root
- Leah♀Biblical Hebrew Le’ah, often linked with weary
- Lee♂♀Meadow; in the English surname-derived route
What rhymes with Lesty?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
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- Wiktionary contributors — Lesty (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — Lester (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.