girls:
5 births since 1981
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.5k births since 1912
#1208 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1912
#2766 (64th percentile)
The name Leif is the #2,766 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,488 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 64.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,208 (73.7% percentile) for all time with 9,483 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1981.
Leif first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1981 for girls).
The name Leif has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Leif reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 29.7% percentile (ranked #650) with 155 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 155 births per million (ranked 29.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Leif is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #644 (29.3% percentile) with 152 births per million.
For girls, Leif reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #777) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Leif".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Leif. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.9% confident that Leif is pronounced as layf, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leef, at 31.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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