Lemon
#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births · Last seen for boys in 1992 at #8,435
Given to boys 74.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1902 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,071since 1882
Lemon 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,546 | 30 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,669 | 29 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,709 | 41 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,215 | 50 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,546 | 42 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | — | |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,990 | 27 | — | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | — | — | ||
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| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
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| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,282 | 7 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,263 | 13 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,558 | 10 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,207 | 13 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,531 | 10 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,022 | 14 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,271 | 11 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,131 | 11 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,195 | 11 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,074 | 13 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,145 | 12 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,685 | 17 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,983 | 13 | |
| 1939 | — | #3,113 | 6 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,326 | 10 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,627 | 18 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,538 | 20 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,386 | 24 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,997 | 13 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,995 | 14 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,589 | 20 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,368 | 28 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,848 | 17 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,480 | 25 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,350 | 30 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,605 | 22 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,935 | 17 | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | #1,492 | 26 |
| 1923 | — | #1,874 | 18 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,591 | 23 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,509 | 25 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,505 | 25 | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | #1,576 | 22 |
| 1918 | — | #1,446 | 25 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,479 | 23 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,594 | 20 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,553 | 20 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,388 | 19 | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | #1,146 | 20 |
| 1912 | — | #1,268 | 14 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,387 | 7 | |
| 1910 | — | #928 | 12 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,277 | 6 | |
| 1908 | — | #877 | 10 | |
| 1907 | — | #999 | 8 | |
| 1906 | — | #852 | 9 | |
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | #810 | 9 | |
| 1903 | — | #910 | 7 | |
| 1902 | — | #556 | 15 | |
| 1901 | — | #779 | 8 | |
| 1900 | — | #836 | 10 | |
| 1899 | — | #786 | 8 | |
| 1898 | — | #663 | 11 | |
| 1897 | — | #787 | 8 | |
| 1896 | — | #778 | 9 | |
| 1895 | — | #978 | 6 | |
| 1894 | — | #954 | 6 | |
| 1893 | — | #907 | 6 | |
| 1892 | — | #688 | 10 | |
| 1891 | — | #963 | 5 | |
| 1890 | — | #814 | 7 | |
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | #583 | 10 | |
| 1886 | — | #647 | 9 | |
| 1885 | — | #700 | 8 | |
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | #892 | 5 | |
| 1882 | — | #754 | 7 | |
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Lemon! It came in at #754, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1884, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Lemon is popular in 1886
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Lemon
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1992
- Biggest jump: 349 spots in 1910 (#1,277 → #928)
- Biggest drop: 459 spots in 1911 (#928 → #1,387)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1902 at #556 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 1890–1904
- Highest: 1 in 8,177 boys born in 1902 were named Lemon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 399,482 boys born in 1992 (0.00%)
- 21.3% of all boys named Lemon (228) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2013, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 39 | #583 (1887) | #715 |
| 1890s | 76 | #663 (1898) | #832 |
| 1900s | 82 | #556 (1902) | #877 |
| 1910s | 182 | #928 (1910) | #1,377 |
| 1920s | 228 | #1,350 (1927) | #1,619 |
| 1930s | 162 | #1,368 (1930) | #1,939 |
| 1940s | 119 | #1,685 (1941) | #2,205 |
| 1950s | 80 | #2,207 (1954) | #3,127 |
| 1960s | 60 | #2,673 (1963) | #3,499 |
| 1970s | 28 | #4,054 (1973) | #4,839 |
| 1980s | 5 | #6,951 (1987) | #6,951 |
| 1990s | 10 | #8,236 (1991) | #8,336 |
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.
Lemon in 1886
Top boys' names in 1886
More about 1886
boys
110,783 boys got a published name in 1886; 1 in 12,309 of them was named Lemon, which outranked 41.7% of the 1,110 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 40.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).