Legacy
#662 for girls in 2025, 429 births · #955 for boys in 2025, 244 births
Given to girls 68.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 725 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,774since 1994
Legacy over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #662 | 429 | #955 | 244 |
| 2024 | #610 | 493 | #957 | 237 |
| 2023 | #540 | 559 | #831 | 295 |
| 2022 | #484 | 655 | #731 | 355 |
| 2021 | #434 | 725 | #709 | 370 |
| 2020 | #500 | 612 | #760 | 316 |
| 2019 | #615 | 491 | #826 | 273 |
| 2018 | #786 | 347 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #942 | 280 | #1,439 | 119 |
| 2016 | #1,039 | 254 | #1,903 | 77 |
| 2015 | #1,416 | 163 | #2,253 | 59 |
| 2014 | #1,892 | 106 | #3,234 | 34 |
| 2013 | #2,305 | 80 | #3,405 | 31 |
| 2012 | #2,401 | 77 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #3,051 | 55 | #4,356 | 22 |
| 2010 | #2,589 | 70 | #3,181 | 35 |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #4,360 | 35 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #4,944 | 29 | — | |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | — | |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,639 | 33 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,280 | 18 | — | |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Legacy! It came in at #8,122, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Legacy is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oklahoma#397 · 1 in 1,574
- Mississippi#427 · 1 in 1,560
- Kentucky#427 · 1 in 1,788
- Ohio#441 · 1 in 2,071
- Georgia#487 · 1 in 2,244
Best ever in a state: #148 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #397 | 10 | 1 in 1,574 |
| Kentucky | #427 | 10 | 1 in 1,788 |
| Mississippi | #427 | 7 | 1 in 1,560 |
| Ohio | #441 | 25 | 1 in 2,071 |
| Georgia | #487 | 21 | 1 in 2,244 |
| Louisiana | #532 | 9 | 1 in 2,209 |
| South Carolina | #575 | 7 | 1 in 2,537 |
| North Carolina | #602 | 15 | 1 in 3,026 |
| Maryland | #704 | 7 | 1 in 3,325 |
| Missouri | #731 | 7 | 1 in 3,710 |
| New Jersey | #750 | 9 | 1 in 3,996 |
| Alabama | #796 | 5 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Michigan | #846 | 9 | 1 in 4,585 |
| Pennsylvania | #883 | 10 | 1 in 5,114 |
| Texas | #891 | 31 | 1 in 5,157 |
| Virginia | #942 | 7 | 1 in 5,147 |
| Illinois | #1,055 | 9 | 1 in 6,172 |
| Tennessee | #1,067 | 5 | 1 in 6,120 |
| Florida | #1,283 | 10 | 1 in 8,596 |
| New York | #1,460 | 9 | 1 in 9,777 |
| California | #2,256 | 9 | 1 in 21,750 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Legacy
- 52 spots since 2024 (#610 → #662)
- 162 spots since 2020 (#500 → #662)
- 754 spots since 2015 (#1,416 → #662)
- Biggest jump: 171 spots in 2019 (#786 → #615)
- Biggest drop: 70 spots in 2024 (#540 → #610)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2021 at #434 (725 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,263 girls born in 2021 were named Legacy (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,747 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 60.1% of all girls named Legacy (3,473) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 101 | #3,639 (1999) | #6,500 |
| 2000s | 277 | #3,631 (2001) | #4,876 |
| 2010s | 1,923 | #615 (2019) | #1,704 |
| 2020s | 3,473 | #434 (2021) | #538 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Legacy in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,166 of them was named Legacy, which outranked 94.9% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #938Kailee281
- #938Marjorie281
- #938Mylah281
- #942Legacy280
- #942Arely280
- #942Dana280
- #942Jurnee280
- #948Carla279
- #948Ellianna279
- #948Magdalena279
Tied with 5 names at #942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,554 of them was named Legacy, which outranked 89.9% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,433Francesco120
- #1,433Rowdy120
- #1,433Zayvion120
- #1,439Legacy119
- #1,439Aryeh119
- #1,439Devansh119
- #1,439Diesel119
- #1,449Brogan118
- #1,449Dezmond118
- #1,449Dov118
Tied with 9 names at #1,439; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.