Lemmy

Where Lemmy comes from

The dictionaries list Lemmy as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2011
    First appearance
    #12,287 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2017
    Peak, #5,788
    15 babies named Lemmy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #12,022.
  4. 2024
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Lemmy hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.