Legend
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births · #193 for boys in 2025, 1,862 births
Given to boys 96.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 3,186 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 25,805since 1993
Legend over time
Rank among boys' names. Legend has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 | #193 | 1,862 |
| 2024 | #4,294 | 33 | #157 | 2,288 |
| 2023 | #3,386 | 47 | #145 | 2,505 |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 | #132 | 2,901 |
| 2021 | #2,929 | 57 | #118 | 3,186 |
| 2020 | #2,549 | 67 | #127 | 2,852 |
| 2019 | #2,508 | 70 | #150 | 2,578 |
| 2018 | #2,275 | 80 | #216 | 1,734 |
| 2017 | #2,384 | 76 | #255 | 1,461 |
| 2016 | #2,539 | 70 | #310 | 1,148 |
| 2015 | #3,177 | 52 | #391 | 815 |
| 2014 | #3,719 | 41 | #533 | 523 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #717 | 327 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #830 | 263 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #928 | 215 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #940 | 214 |
| 2009 | #5,537 | 25 | #1,020 | 191 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #1,119 | 163 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 | #1,638 | 94 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 | #2,037 | 65 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | #1,573 | 88 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,452 | 45 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #3,044 | 31 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,470 | 40 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | #2,429 | 40 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #2,231 | 41 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #3,830 | 17 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Legend! It came in at #5,360, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1994, when fewer than 12 boys a year got the name.
Where Legend is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Alabama#29 · 1 in 212
- Louisiana#34 · 1 in 220
- Hawaii#42 · 1 in 193
- Georgia#42 · 1 in 245
- Arkansas#45 · 1 in 233
Best ever in a state: #17 in Mississippi, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | #29 | 104 | 1 in 212 |
| Louisiana | #34 | 97 | 1 in 220 |
| Georgia | #42 | 209 | 1 in 245 |
| Hawaii | #42 | 17 | 1 in 193 |
| Arkansas | #45 | 54 | 1 in 233 |
| District of Columbia | #47 | 18 | 1 in 172 |
| Mississippi | #49 | 51 | 1 in 226 |
| Delaware | #52 | 18 | 1 in 178 |
| South Carolina | #53 | 80 | 1 in 256 |
| North Carolina | #66 | 168 | 1 in 303 |
| Nevada | #84 | 37 | 1 in 314 |
| Florida | #90 | 234 | 1 in 407 |
| Oklahoma | #94 | 47 | 1 in 378 |
| Tennessee | #99 | 91 | 1 in 395 |
| Illinois | #100 | 126 | 1 in 411 |
| Maryland | #108 | 59 | 1 in 421 |
| Ohio | #119 | 114 | 1 in 466 |
| Missouri | #120 | 59 | 1 in 474 |
| Indiana | #121 | 73 | 1 in 441 |
| Virginia | #124 | 76 | 1 in 505 |
| Michigan | #129 | 86 | 1 in 483 |
| New York | #132 | 146 | 1 in 597 |
| Connecticut | #136 | 29 | 1 in 481 |
| Texas | #138 | 291 | 1 in 614 |
| Rhode Island | #141 | 8 | 1 in 424 |
| Pennsylvania | #148 | 93 | 1 in 576 |
| Wisconsin | #161 | 38 | 1 in 623 |
| New Jersey | #168 | 57 | 1 in 714 |
| South Dakota | #175 | 7 | 1 in 523 |
| Kentucky | #188 | 28 | 1 in 707 |
| Minnesota | #192 | 33 | 1 in 755 |
| North Dakota | #200 | 6 | 1 in 572 |
| Kansas | #203 | 18 | 1 in 759 |
| Iowa | #226 | 17 | 1 in 821 |
| Massachusetts | #234 | 26 | 1 in 1,063 |
| West Virginia | #243 | 8 | 1 in 837 |
| New Mexico | #252 | 8 | 1 in 832 |
| Oregon | #258 | 16 | 1 in 955 |
| California | #263 | 155 | 1 in 1,220 |
| Arizona | #271 | 30 | 1 in 1,088 |
| Colorado | #283 | 23 | 1 in 1,107 |
| Nebraska | #349 | 7 | 1 in 1,237 |
| Utah | #351 | 13 | 1 in 1,457 |
| Washington | #507 | 14 | 1 in 2,374 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Legend
- 36 spots since 2024 (#157 → #193)
- 66 spots since 2020 (#127 → #193)
- 198 spots since 2015 (#391 → #193)
- Biggest jump: 184 spots in 2014 (#717 → #533)
- Biggest drop: 36 spots in 2025 (#157 → #193)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2021 at #118 (3,186 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 549 boys born in 2021 were named Legend (0.18%)
- Latest: 1 in 917 boys born in 2025 (0.11%)
- 60.4% of all boys named Legend (15,594) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 146 | #2,231 (1999) | #3,778 |
| 2000s | 787 | #1,020 (2009) | #2,070 |
| 2010s | 9,278 | #150 (2019) | #527 |
| 2020s | 15,594 | #118 (2021) | #145 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Legend in 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 23,770 of them was named Legend, which outranked 85.6% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,530Shaina70
- #2,530Shira70
- #2,530Zaniya70
- #2,554Legend69
- #2,554Abbigail69
- #2,554Acacia69
- #2,554Adleigh69
- #2,579Alyanna68
- #2,579Amyrah68
- #2,579Azora68
Tied with 24 names at #2,554; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 602 of them was named Legend, which outranked 99.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.