girls:
4.8k births since 1994
#2441 (57th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 2002
#2675 (42nd percentile)
overall:
7.1k births since 1994
#3207 (59th percentile)
The name Legacy is the #3,207 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,064 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 58.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,441 (57.3% percentile) for all time with 4,842 births since 1994. For boys, it ranks #2,675 (41.6% percentile) for all time with 2,222 births since 2002.
Legacy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for girls and 2002 for boys).
The name Legacy has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (68.5% of all recorded births). In 2023, 65.4% of babies named Legacy were girls.
For girls, Legacy reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 59.4% percentile (ranked #381) with 404 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 404 births per million (ranked 59.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Legacy ranks #476 for girls (49.8% percentile) with 318 births per million, which is 78.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Legacy reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 36.4% percentile (ranked #592) with 197 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 197 births per million (ranked 36.4% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Legacy ranks #630 for boys (30.9% percentile) with 161 births per million, which is 81.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Legacy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Legacy is pronounced as LEH-guh-see, which has 3 syllables.
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