girls:
913 births since 1994
#4803 (16th percentile)
boys:
21.6k births since 1993
#779 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.5k births since 1993
#1691 (78th percentile)
The name Legend is the #1,691 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,519 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 78.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #779 (83.0% percentile) for all time with 21,606 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #4,803 (15.9% percentile) for all time with 913 births since 1994.
Legend first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 1994 for girls).
The name Legend has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Legend reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 87.5% percentile (ranked #117) with 1,696 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 1,696 births per million (ranked 87.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Legend ranks #142 for boys (84.5% percentile) with 1,361 births per million, which is 80.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Legend reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 7.8% percentile (ranked #886) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 43 births per million (ranked 7.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Legend ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 62.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Legend".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Legend is pronounced as LEH-juhnd, which has 2 syllables.
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